The art of doing nothing online
Not every internet session needs a goal. Some of the best ones don't.
We've been trained to think of every minute on the internet as either productive (research, learning, communication) or a guilty pleasure (scrolling, doomscrolling, more scrolling). There's a third category that doesn't get enough credit: aimless wandering.
The internet, at its best, is a vast collection of small, strange things that nobody planned for you to find. Wandering through it is its own reward. You don't have to learn anything. You don't have to share anything. You don't have to decide whether what you saw was good or bad.
The trick is to wander without an app between you and the web. Open a tab. Click something. Let the next click come from what you find, not from what an algorithm guesses you'd like next. Stop when you feel like stopping.
There's a real, restorative version of being online that has nothing to do with productivity. Practice it occasionally.