Remove anything I feel an unsatiated desire for and become agitated when I don’t have access to. No video games, TV, Netflix, social media. I turned my phone display to greyscale and turned off all those UI animation effects that make interactions feel sleek. I installed https://screenzen.co/ Screen time also works. I asked my partner to set passwords for them. On my laptop, I installed https://selfcontrolapp.com/ and set max block time to months https://gist.github.com/gschema/16bc1e77833dfe06e63b81256473fe72 Whenever I found myself developing any new addiction to a website, like novels on wikisource, I added them to the block list.
Finding a replacement could ease the withdrawal. Lesswrong is a perfect replacement for social media for me. The updates and feedback are much less frequent, and there is no endless scroll.
Perhaps finding a new superstimulus also helped. I got addicted to a mobile game a few weeks ago, and totally shifted my attention from social media to it. When I went cold turkey on all distracting apps, it felt easier because I had less attention on social media. Also, I haven’t developed much attachment to the game given the short time.
Remove anything I feel an unsatiated desire for and become agitated when I don’t have access to. No video games, TV, Netflix, social media. I turned my phone display to greyscale and turned off all those UI animation effects that make interactions feel sleek. I installed https://screenzen.co/ Screen time also works. I asked my partner to set passwords for them. On my laptop, I installed https://selfcontrolapp.com/ and set max block time to months https://gist.github.com/gschema/16bc1e77833dfe06e63b81256473fe72 Whenever I found myself developing any new addiction to a website, like novels on wikisource, I added them to the block list.
Finding a replacement could ease the withdrawal. Lesswrong is a perfect replacement for social media for me. The updates and feedback are much less frequent, and there is no endless scroll.
Perhaps finding a new superstimulus also helped. I got addicted to a mobile game a few weeks ago, and totally shifted my attention from social media to it. When I went cold turkey on all distracting apps, it felt easier because I had less attention on social media. Also, I haven’t developed much attachment to the game given the short time.