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It's sad that you need to do this to feel calm. Technology is an every day part of the 21st century and learning to live with it , not running away from it is a

by hnriot 12y ago

It's sad that you need to do this to feel calm. Technology is an every day part of the 21st century and learning to live with it , not running away from it is a far healthier approach. Not sure how yo removed Safari since it's not one of the removable apps, but if you really want this why not replace that old iPhone 4 with an actual dumb phone, wouldn't that be the smarter thing to do? All of your points are kind of sad, if you don't like reading stuff on a small screen, either don't, or get a phone with a bigger screen - removing the email app was the wrong solution. As for the comment about "forced to get around the city", well.. again just the dumbest thing I've heard in a long while. I have the youtube app but I seldom use it. I seem to manage just fine with it on my phone and not opening it.

graeme 12y ago
>It's sad that you need to do this to feel calm. Technology is an every day part of the 21st century and learning to live with it , not running away from it is a far healthier approach. That's what I'm doing, I think. I run an online business – I'm not a Luddite. I found email and other notifications too distracting if they were with me constantly. I'm hardly the first person to use batch processing for email. It's simply not efficient to deal with it all over the place, as it comes in. http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/06/12/how-batch-processing-made-me-10-times-more-productive/ http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/06/12/how-batch-proc...
- preetnation 12y ago
  While I'm not to the same level as you, I agree with your larger point. Being constantly interrupted leads to a state of unease and inability to think clearly. My limited approach to this is to put my email icon on my 5th screen of my phone, and remove all vibrations from my phone that aren't phone calls. Texts don't vibrate, and e-mails only increment the badge counter on the icon.
JoeAltmaier 12y ago
No reason to believe technology is at all conducive to calm, or that we'll be able to live with it in a healthy relationship. That's Pollyanna thinking. Nobody is measuring or planning what media saturation point is compatible with a healthy Homo Sapiens. Companies make ever-more-frantic devices and apps; people buy them. Nobody figuring out if its good for us.

by hnriot 12y ago

graeme 12y ago

>It's sad that you need to do this to feel calm. Technology is an every day part of the 21st century and learning to live with it , not running away from it is a far healthier approach. That's what I'm doing, I think. I run an online business – I'm not a Luddite. I found email and other notifications too distracting if they were with me constantly. I'm hardly the first person to use batch processing for email. It's simply not efficient to deal with it all over the place, as it comes in. http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/06/12/how-batch-processing-made-me-10-times-more-productive/ http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/06/12/how-batch-proc...

preetnation 12y ago
While I'm not to the same level as you, I agree with your larger point. Being constantly interrupted leads to a state of unease and inability to think clearly. My limited approach to this is to put my email icon on my 5th screen of my phone, and remove all vibrations from my phone that aren't phone calls. Texts don't vibrate, and e-mails only increment the badge counter on the icon.

JoeAltmaier 12y ago

No reason to believe technology is at all conducive to calm, or that we'll be able to live with it in a healthy relationship. That's Pollyanna thinking. Nobody is measuring or planning what media saturation point is compatible with a healthy Homo Sapiens. Companies make ever-more-frantic devices and apps; people buy them. Nobody figuring out if its good for us.