The founder of a major social media platform recently sent his children to a school with no screens. The irony was not lost on him. 'I know exactly what these things do to developing brains,' he told me. 'That's why they're not allowed in my house.'

The Insider Exodus

A growing cohort of tech executives, engineers, and investors are quietly retreating from the digital products they helped create. Dumb phones. Paper notebooks. Analog watches. The aesthetic of deliberate disconnection.