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.
I found this post helpful in making me adopt a more anti-technology mindset, which seems to be the source of many problems discussed in the post above. Adopting the idea that technology can often be a hindrance instead of a convenience helped me use it less, and made me happier because of that.
soo, how does one re-choose & make the choice stick in the middle of a pattern that became part of normality?
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.
I found this post helpful in making me adopt a more anti-technology mindset, which seems to be the source of many problems discussed in the post above. Adopting the idea that technology can often be a hindrance instead of a convenience helped me use it less, and made me happier because of that.