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.
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.
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.
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.