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Slow living in 2026 started as genuine exhaustion with digital overload. Then TikTok Shop turned it into a haul category. The people actually living slowly are the ones who never made it content.
By Jules Fontaine · 3 min read
Digital minimalism has real science behind it: randomized controlled trials show measurable drops in depression, stress, and sleep disruption within three weeks of cutting screen time. But the aesthetic version being sold online, the courses, the apps, the linen-toned lifestyle content, is a different product entirely. One costs nothing and requires discipline. The other costs money and requires very little.
By Zara Mitchell · 4 min read