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RE: Thoughts over coffee: Part ten

in Galenkp's Stuff13 days ago

You can get so easily distracted nowadays...
It's so shocking to see people grab their phone every couple of seconds. People just can't seem to do nothing anymore. And it is a focus killer as well.

As I was doing this too and I hated it that I was doing that, I started a 'digital detox' about a year ago. I removed all unnecessary apps and games and blocked all notifications except for calls. I instructed my loved ones to call me when they have something important since nobody else calls me and the calls show up on my watch, so I can leave my phone out of reach (which is also very useful. Put your phone away in a drawer or out of sight).

Despite the fact that I have made my phone quite boring it does have a browser. And that was my backdoor to distractions. You can open news sites, youtube and also Hive on it. I regularly checked my phone to see if I had new notifications on Hive and if there was news on one of the websites.

In a book I recently read about Intentional living was a nice tip. The author didn't want his kids to become phone addicted, so he always explicitly told why he was checking his phone. This way he needed to have a good reason to pick it up.
Since a few days I also only try to unlock my phone when I really have a good reason to do so. Not because it is a habit or I am bored.

At work I started using https://pomofocus.io/, a pomodoro timer of 25 minutes and 5 minutes pause (sometimes 15). In those 25 minutes I focus on my task and don't check your chats or mails. During the breaks, no screens are allowed (my own rule).
Before the next 25 minutes I quickly check for important chats and once every few 'rounds' I check my mail. This really helped me to become more productive.

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Yep, you seem to have a good handle on it and actively work towards better focus at work or personally. For sure you have the right idea with your phone as well, that's such a time/focus killer.

I have an implanted sensor for my health and need to check it (phone) and administer many times a day so my phone has to come everywhere I go...which I hate. It is what it is, better than dying. I minimise its use though, don't play games (time-wasteful) and don't have social media so don't spend lengthy periods on my phone unless it's a call. You remember what a call is right? (Seems phones are sold purely around their camera ability and AI fucktardery these days.)

Anyway, you have a good process going, maybe one day others will also unplug from the Matrix.

 12 days ago Reveal Comment

Phones annoy me and I wish I didn't have to have one. Sure, convenient in many aspects but I remember life when I didn't have to carry a computer in my pocket and I lied it better. Alas, for my health, it's indispensable as the phone operates systems that keep my Alice on a minute by minute basis and so I have a phone everywhere I go. Sucks.

What else sucks? All the 2FA nutbaggery but that also comes with the landscape, the digital world I guess. It's all too much really, the way things have "progressed" and where it's going.