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RE: Killed my phone, got back my soul
Phone as attachments... so true!
The immediacy if notifications kills us; it’s like Pavlov and his dogs, a kind of social engineering, training us to constantly be responding.
I turned all notifications off every app, and also turned off most apps (except the super important ones) accessing mobile data, that way I can only do some things whilst on wifi.
Phones are useful, for sure. And learning how to maintain the appropriate amount of attention on the appropriate things is a wonderful lesson I’ve been playing with for the last couple of years now.
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Yeah, seems like a really "useful" feature to get notified but damn, it's really easy for it to start generating anxiety and make your life spin around this system. As you say, they are useful and as long as we use them in a balanced way they are great tools.