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Addled – Nitin Khanna
Nitin Khanna, on nitinkhanna.com:
You’ve spent over thirty years,” she continued, “not getting addicted to any of this stuff. You read books. You read articles and blogs. You need to go back to those. We can’t all be addicts.” She knows of my RSS feeds and Instapaper “habit”. I reckon a habit needs to be something you do regularly, but I don’t follow up on those often enough. Not anymore.
This absolutely resonated with me. I’ve seen my reading time affected my YouTube and the Twitter’s For You feed.
But it’s time to pull back.
We can’t be going into our 40s getting sucked into echo chambers and algorithmic escapes. That’s not the way to live a life.
I generate friction for rabbit holes this way:
- Remove App from Spotlight Search results and Siri suggestions.
- I use one sec for a pause screen before an app launches, and intervention notifications while used.