Hello everyone! I was wondering if you folks also ...
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happy-teacher-99991
11/03/2021, 3:06 PMHello everyone! I was wondering if you folks also face the problem of having relentless articles, videos and just, content through at your face every single minute of the day and getting super overwhelmed by all of this? If you have already been through this phase, what worked and what didn’t to avoid such catastrophe? and for those who are still figuring this out, what seems to be working?
happy-teacher-99991
11/03/2021, 3:08 PMAs for me, I tried to move to Pocket for saving all of the articles I come across, this solved the problem of having to read so many articles, but doesn’t solve the problem that I need to still read through all of the articles! Even worse, reading through the articles means that I will be overloading my brain with too much content, and I am extremely lazy to spin out a new document every time I read an article to write down notes and what not. Something to think about here is, should I read articles on an adhoc basis through the news channels I subscribe to? or should I try to focus on a goal, and read things accordingly?
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thousands-morning-63911
11/03/2021, 3:09 PMJust by installing unhook on chrome and uninstalling OTT apps from my mobile my screen time dropped by 70%. Overall unhook was great in avoiding the youtube recommendation rabbit-hole.
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modern-table-48211
11/03/2021, 3:11 PMI gave up chasing articles to be read and other metrics like must read x number of articles etc. Doesn't make sense to read everything. Adding to pocket is like pushing that trash under the bed /carpet - it will spillover sooner or later. Read articles if you find them interesting, not because you have to.
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faint-energy-11966
11/03/2021, 4:06 PMI barely read anything these days. Focusing mostly on books and that too timeless classics. I avoid anything and everything written by "influencers",
"productivity" experts, youtubers. Life is too short. Don't want to be wasting time on potboilers
https://www.readmargins.com/p/everything-is-content-now
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brash-monitor-80970
11/04/2021, 10:01 AM1. Pick your battles, don't let the battels pick you
2. Discover that you really want to read. Don't be the slave to algorithms
3. Its perfectly fine to not know everything.
4. mental wellbeing > status signalling
5. Embrace boredom
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fresh-analyst-84724
11/05/2021, 10:17 AMI don't know if I get your question correctly, but if it was about reducing consumption, LeechBlock and the focus mode (android digital wellbeing) is working great for me. I love how focus mode just closes the apps after timeout, no confirmation dialogues. That's exactly what I needed (not wanted lol)
fresh-analyst-84724
11/05/2021, 10:21 AMLetting others do some of the filtering for you might also work - like https://twitter.com/newsyc500