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Cake day: June 11th, 2023









  • There’s this concept of screens with a purpose. That if you are going to use a device, you should state before hand, explicitly and out loud, what is your goal. Set an objective, do only that and drop the device as soon as the goal is achieved or postponed. It works wonders with adults too. It discourages idling with the device in the hand doing nothing. It can also include recreational use, you just set a given goal, not just a brain dead timer. Like, instead of doom scrolling for 15 minutes, it would be, catch up with friend’s social media, and only friend’s posts, for only 15 minutes. Or checking the front-page new posts, only 10 minutes, only one comment allowed. Appreciating the Batman animated collection, 3 episodes at a time. That sort of stuff, always goal oriented to avoid idle loss of time and dissociation.