Nourishing the soul requires disconnecting from the screen and engaging in slow, physical, and often difficult analog experiences—especially in nature and community—that connect us to the profound reality of our embodied human existence. analog activities—puzzles, gardening, hiking, and surfing—as a source of solace. These activities nourished the soul because they were physical, required effort, and engaged all the senses. We have a deep, biological need for nature. Analog experiences force us to confront reality, with all its discomfort and risk, which is a powerfully healing process. A future that nourishes the soul is one that recognizes our physical limits *not as problems to be overcome with technology* (through optimization), but as the very conditions of our flourishing. It is a future that embraces the "primary experience" of direct contact with the world, because to be truly alive is to embrace the messy, beautiful, and profoundly analog reality of our existence. [[You have to be in there and in there for the experience]]