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The Notebook Rule
- Before any interaction with a screen, I write down, in a notebook, what I intend to do. Then, as soon as I’m done doing that thing, I walk away (close the laptop, put the phone down, literally walk away, etc).
from The Notebook Rule by J.E. Petersen
Sasha added 12d ago
It helps me to talk through what I'm doing. That way I don't lose the essence of the action and am more focused on the action. Otherwise, I can get distracted and instead of writing a document, I might find myself browsing my social media feed.
- For the past year or more, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about how the primary challenge we face, as people living in a modern western society, is not surviving in a resource scarce environment, but is instead managing to not gorge ourselves to death, literally/physically or figuratively/spiritually.
from The Notebook Rule by J.E. Petersen
sari added 9mo ago
- These companies, the attention economy itself, and the consumerist society that gave birth to it, deploy vast resources to turn as many people as possible into passive consumers, to reduce us to our eyeballs and our wallets. Because the more control a company can get over those things, the better their stocks will perform.
First, consumerism turned... See morefrom The Notebook Rule by J.E. Petersen
sari added 9mo ago
- The Notebook Rule
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been fault-testing something I’m going to call The Notebook Rule.
It goes like this:Before any interaction with a screen, I write down, in a notebook, what I intend to do. Then, as soon as I’m done doing that thing, I walk away (close the laptop, put the phone down, literally walk away, etc).
from The Notebook Rule by J.E. Petersen
sari added 9mo ago
intention> attention
21 Signs You Might be a Digital Dope Addict
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Check all that apply:- On average, you engage in passive scrolling at least once a day
- You check your phone (or some other screen) within minutes of waking up
- You check your phone (or some other screen) within minutes of going to sleep
- You check your phone for no reason
- You have a hard time sitting still (or s
from The Notebook Rule by J.E. Petersen
sari added 9mo ago