New blog post:
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New blog post:
I'm constantly distracted and I need to do something about it
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New blog post:
I'm constantly distracted and I need to do something about it
https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/02/im-constantly-distracted-and-i-need-to-do-something-about-it/@82mhz I opened the article and switched away to something else only to stumble upon it again 3 minutes later.
I recognize a lot of what you write. The past two years my phone broke twice (last time it was just too much gunk in the charging port… I found out 1½ months later). Being reduced to having no phone or only a dumb phone was great for my concentration. I could read books again, I could do crossword puzzles.
I don't think I could afford having many single purpose devices (cont.)
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@82mhz I opened the article and switched away to something else only to stumble upon it again 3 minutes later.
I recognize a lot of what you write. The past two years my phone broke twice (last time it was just too much gunk in the charging port… I found out 1½ months later). Being reduced to having no phone or only a dumb phone was great for my concentration. I could read books again, I could do crossword puzzles.
I don't think I could afford having many single purpose devices (cont.)
@82mhz but! I have always been very aware of never installing games on my phones and try to restrict notifications ob my phone as much as possible. For a long time I also didn't use mastodon on my computer (which was partly because I had forgotten the password and didn't want to bother with a reset). Today my concentration isn't great, but I believe it could be worse. A never ending struggle, I feel.
Good luck with your experiments!
