Read the headline, tap, scroll, tap, tap, scroll.
~ Shane Parrish from, How Filter Bubbles Distort Reality
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Well, there’s your problem. Right there in that first line of that article.
But it’s not your fault. There’s a huge asymmetry in the modern struggle.
The solution isn’t to flee, but rather to grab all the technology doo-dads by the, err… doo-dads and make them do your bidding. Notice when something annoys you, and then take the time—it might be seconds, minutes, hours or days—to solve that problem. Triple-word score if you can eliminate something entirely; delete your account from one social network that you’re ok with being without… that fixes annoying notifications. Delete an app. Find some web sites, (hey thanks for following mine,) that work the way you want them to. Subscribe to email if you like, use RSS if you like, etc.
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