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There's a grain of truth to this, but it's all mired together. The medium (the phone) is the message (content). The form factor (in-pocket), connectivity (stre
by NiloCK 2y ago
There's a grain of truth to this, but it's all mired together. The medium (the phone) is the message (content).
The form factor (in-pocket), connectivity (streaming content), and economic drivers (attention economy), all fundamentally bias smartphones toward the kind of poisonous content our brains can't deal with.
- everdrive 2y agoThis is correct. If imagine if all you had was a desktop which was shut down between sessions. Just needing to walk to a different room, boot up your desktop, and sign in -- a minor ~1 minute of inconvenience would prevent much of this compulsive using. When the barriers are low enough, people cannot help themselves.
- nightowl_games 2y agoStanding desk only. No sitting and browsing. That was a huge change for me.
- everdrive 2y agoEvery so often, I end up selling my laptop to diminish the convenience of my computer usage. Usually, I end up eventually reneging and buying a new (used) one.
- Viliam1234 2y agoI repeatedly install and uninstall web blockers, which sounds like a smaller version of the same approach.