In case you didn’t hear, Paul Miller left the Internet for a year. Now he’s back, and there’s not that much more to it. The sky is still blue, and at the end of the day (or a year), you still are who you are and you do what you do.

However, I think it’s a valuable service to our community what Paul did. Now we can cross it off the list and admit to ourselves what we knew all along:

But at least I’ll know that it’s not the internet’s fault. I’ll know who’s responsible, and who can fix it.

Thies totally ties in with thoughts on abandoning smartphones and technological conservatism.