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Consuming content is a skill.
Almost nobody is taking it seriously.
Almost everyone is paying the price.
Not many people talk about this, so I’ve picked up these tips piecing together principles here and there, and iterating in real life:
My phone is not allowed to enter the bedroom, and it damn sure cannot be on the bed. No, when I go to sleep I put it to charge in the living room. Also, my phone cannot be at the table when I’m eating, and it should not be asking for attention when I’m working. (leave it face down in silent mode).
If you get good at this it will fix most of your problems. It’s the 80-20 of content consumption improvement.
The best way to do this is to ditch all “Made for you” platforms, in favour of “subscribe” based feeds. That’s why I said goodbye to TikTok and Instagram, and stuck with youtube. By using a “Made for you” feed like TikTok’s or insta reels, you are basically surrendering your decision making power of what interests you to the algorythm. You are basically saying “algorithm, please feed me stuff I will like”. It’s a new (normal) layer of laziness which we perceive as being valuable at first, except that we have no idea what the algorithmic function that is tasked to choose the content to feed us is trying to optimize for. Well.. we know actually.. it’s optimizing for maximum time spent on the platform, aka it’s optimizing for Doomscrolling. And they’re damn good at it. So make sure you stick with content you actually subscribed to.
Solve this and you solve doomscrolling.
If you want to go more hardcore on this point read this: