{"id":4257,"date":"2022-09-03T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2022-09-03T19:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T19:00:41","slug":"digital-detox-lets-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/09\/digital-detox-lets-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital detox, let&rsquo;s get it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, digital DE-TOX mfs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>No more apps on phones. Texts, emails on read-only, calls, photos. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Obviously, no notifications ever.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>No phone around after 8pm and before 10am. Just don\u2019t fucking touch it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Laptop\/desktop for everything you need to do. Do the tasks, level up, close the laptop\/desktop.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Stay on the open web as much as possible. Bookmark. Manage your reading. RSS FTW.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Use your bank web portal and shut up (I know, they often suck but no apps on phones, jfc).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>No TV and no screen bigger than 24\/27inches. They swallow your soul. Stop using them.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get books, use your library card. Turn pages, hear the sound.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Listen to offline music; fill up drives with mp3 files. Buy a cheap Sandisk player.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Share, write, publish online. It can be anything, text, videos, music. And then move on.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Talk to people of all ages. Have conversations. Get out and go to events. Share.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Take your time. Allow yourself to do nothing. Quiet your mind now and then. Close your eyes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mobile computing fragments our attention <a href=\"https:\/\/idratherbewriting.com\/blog\/awakening-moment-to-how-smartphones-fragment-our-attention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like crazy<\/a>. <strong>Use phones *way* less<\/strong>. Fight this shit. I did.<\/p>\n<p>I never went all-in on phones and notifications and IG and whatever. After a decade, I see that I\u2019m the only one with the mental ability to completely ignore a ding or a red dot on a screen. And that\u2019s fucking scary because I realize that y\u2019all\u2019s attention span is <em>very<\/em> weak.<\/p>\n<p>A very large attention span deficit \u2013inability to focus on what needs to be done- coupled with gerrymandering, unfocused rage and a wild pandemic? Yup, that\u2019s the sinking world we\u2019re in. We can change.<\/p>\n<p>Please detox. For your own health, your goddamn kids\u2019 future and for democracy\u2019s old ass. \u2018ppreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, digital DE-TOX mfs: No more apps on phones. Texts, emails on read-only, calls, photos. That\u2019s it. Obviously, no notifications ever. No phone around after 8pm and before 10am. Just don\u2019t fucking touch it. Laptop\/desktop for everything you need to do. Do the tasks, level up, close the laptop\/desktop. Stay on the open web as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}