Addicted to Email
The Digital Diet: The 4-step plan to break your tech addiction and regain balance in your life
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Right now when people read a Substack post, it’s usually because they first decided to check their email. Email is good for maintaining a direct relationship between readers and writers, but it kinda sucks as a place to read. When I’m checking my inbox I’m in a mode where I want to bat away everything as quickly as possible in order to get to inbox... See more
Nathan Baschez • Substack’s Ideology
I also tamed instant messages, limiting myself to just three checks of text and other instant messages per day. To help accomplish this, I made sure to disable visible notifications for messaging apps—except for a numbered badge on each app’s icon, so I could see, at a glance, if I had new messages to deal with when it was time to check. (This also
... See moreChris Bailey • How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times
If I wake up and touch my phone, I’ve already lost hours. Not because I’m browsing social media for hours, but because the mind has already been agitated, made unquiet, and the context switch back into thoughtfulness can take the whole morning. In other words, the addict part of my brain takes over and contaminates my ability to be contemplative. I... See more
Craig Mod • Offscreen Magazine Interview
she restricted her digital information intake to a pair of email newsletter subscriptions and a handful of blogs that she checks “less than once a week.” She told me that these carefully selected feeds still satisfy her craving for stimulating ideas and information without dominating her time and toying with her mood.