Heh, this one’s gonna make me feel real bad about myself lol.

I feel encouraged to reduce the amount of social media I use! I’d like to manage to enforce a good laptop/phone split, where I use my laptop for browsing and note-taking and youtube, and my phone is just used for communicating and listening to music.

So… I should delete youtube off my phone. I should also log out of ’stodon and get out the habit of logging back in…

One issue is web browsers can do anything!

I also really like Mastodon, and think its very useful for me as a way to discover cool things (like this article). So I think if I can keep it to my laptop, for an hour a day or so total, that’s acceptable.

Hopefully this means I start reading before bed or w/e instead of YouTubing…

Would be nice. Make your tech work for you. Make it enable you to live how you want to live. Intentional &c..

Anyway, let’s see if this article gives me any good ideas…

They go hard on the “algorithms designed to be addictive to young minds” which I’m wary of… but tbh it sort of just feels true, at least to me and my use of technology. I don’t like how it makes me feel, but I also don’t really see it as “addictive” so much as “there’s genuinely very interesting things on here”. So… idk

heh, there’s a good magazine cover here! Vintage from 1981, a person in a button down shirt with a CRT monitor and keyboard for a head, and they don’t look too happy. The title is “PROCESSED WORLD” and the caption is “Are you doing the processing? … or are you being processed?” indeed! https://processedworld.com/History/history.html

I don’t wanna be processed. I wanna do the processing!

Article had barely any content lol, just linked me to the NYT article and that processed world thing, which is cool, I guess, just doesn’t make my list shorter :P

So… I’m not allowed a flip phone (like these kids have). What can I do? - No youtube or masto on my phone!! I mean it!! - you are allowed to read/draw/get distracted not on my phone as much as i like. - youtube and masto on laptop past six, so you can still do it in the evening, but not whilst you’re in bed. you have to read, then.