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  • August 3, 2021

    Should you delete social media? That’s the wrong question.

    Should you delete social media? That’s the wrong question.

    Real life is hard. Social media is easy. So, instead of, should I delete social media? The question should be, what effort am I willing to make?

  • July 6, 2021

    In praise of taking tiny digital breaks

    In praise of taking tiny digital breaks

    Tiny digital breaks are breaks from time spent online throughout the day where you usually reach for your device for a quick scroll or to check email.

  • June 29, 2021

    Apps to tame digital addiction

    Apps to tame digital addiction

    The solution to minimizing my digital addiction has been using external control, namely apps and such, to spend less time online. Fight fire with fire.

  • June 22, 2021

    Spotify and the paradox of choice

    Spotify and the paradox of choice

    The paradox of choice explains how having many options to choose from can cause people stress and problematize decision-making.

  • June 15, 2021

    Four radical digital detox ideas

    Four radical digital detox ideas

    Once you experience the blissful offline world, it is hard to want to go back to spending way more time than one would like mindlessly browsing the internet.

  • May 31, 2021

    Create space between you and your smartphone

    Create space between you and your smartphone

    Sometimes, all you need is a lil’ space.

  • May 24, 2021

    Value your attention

    Value your attention

    If I told you your attention is worth billions dollars, would you believe me? Let’s value our attention as much as Facebook values it.

  • May 18, 2021

    Look up!

    Look up!

    it is amazing what we can notice when we pay attention to our surroundings; the mundane becomes the most entrancing. Beauty is everywhere.

  • May 10, 2021

    Turning my smartphone into a dumb phone

    Turning my smartphone into a dumb phone

    If you don’t want to give up our smartphone, but still want to spend less time on it, turn it into a tool, rather than an attention guzzling machine.

  • May 4, 2021

    Demonizing the tool(s) is scapegoating

    Demonizing the tool(s) is scapegoating

    When we demonize our smartphones, we are using them as a scapegoat for the real issue: real life is complex, difficult and challenging, and we want to escape.

  • April 27, 2021

    Self-medicating with art: A guide

    Self-medicating with art: A guide

    Wouldn’t it be wonderful to get lost in the world of creativity and art whenever the need to mindlessly scroll arises? Ideas for self-medicating with art.

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