By describing the constant connectivity of contemporary life, Harris explores the idea that lack and absence are actually human virtues being stripped from us.
In it, he argues that solitude should be thought of as a resource that has been exploited and monetized by devices and platform technologies.
In 2021, Harris published a third book, All We Want: Building the Life We Cannot Buy, which describes the emergence of consumer culture and proposes a paradigm shift in the way we measure our lives as a climate emergency forces radical change.
Harris worked as an editor for Vancouver Magazine and Western Living,[3] and his essays have appeared in Esquire, Wired, Salon, Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Walrus.
In 2012, he also published the young adult novel Homo, about a gay teenager struggling with coming out in high school.