Delete apps, use blockers, curate feeds carefully? Avoiding news is a big upgrade in emotional drain, although you have to defend that choice to friends who think that keeping up on news is taking responsibility for others’ suffering.
I think there’s a complex art to using your phone as you wish. Sharing it and practicing it is probably a pretty useful part of rationality practice.
Delete apps, use blockers, curate feeds carefully? Avoiding news is a big upgrade in emotional drain, although you have to defend that choice to friends who think that keeping up on news is taking responsibility for others’ suffering.
I think there’s a complex art to using your phone as you wish. Sharing it and practicing it is probably a pretty useful part of rationality practice.