Aron Rosenberg decided to spend an entire year offline. That meant no internet, no emails and no smartphone.
His experiment happened to coincide with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the rest of the world was becoming more internet-reliant than ever before.
His 365 days of being unplugged started on Jan. 1, 2020 and continued through Dec. 31, 2020. At the time, he was also knee-deep in doctoral work at McGill University.
Rosenberg — a former high school teacher in Vancouver who is now a faculty lecturer in the education department at McGill — wrote about his experience in Jacking Out: A Journal
