1pm—Check snaps, messages, emails, discord team messages and accelerating alignment channel, & EAGx messages. Hard limit at 1:30pm (just set two alarms on my phone)
Whitelist—Roam/ research related searches. Phone calls/ texts are unblocked from a certain set of people, who I’ve told can reach me there. (I set them in the emergency contact list), but besides that, my iPhone is in “focus mode” with all notifications hidden.
Exception handling: I don’t think I’ll need one, but I can let my roommate know and ask for his social support. (Specifically call me out if he sees me on my phone at other times, haha)
(I think everyone should have well-defined exception handling, because some of you will have crazy shit happen, like “someone died”, and that can make it hard if you’re pondering “do I let myself have an allowance now?”. Failing to plan is planning to fail (in not-wholly-improbable worlds).)
I’m unsure about this now. I think there may generally be way better ways to cope (eg sleeping, walks, reading a book, hanging with friends).
A different thought: Clarifying the core thing you don’t like about having media always on (maybe the compulsion that leads to distractedness) may make your idea easier to communicate and look different in actions/plans produced. Like I’m fine with watching a movie with a friend or playing a video game with my roommate for an hour.
A slightly different thought: setting alarms on my phone if I’m looking at my phone for the time because I have a meeting, or I’m waiting on someone to message me timely information has been helpful. I can set a timer for an hour and check my phone then in case they’ve messaged. Or set the timer 5 minutes before my meeting, so I don’t have to think about it.
Sure, I’ll do it as well. For me:
1pm—Check snaps, messages, emails, discord team messages and accelerating alignment channel, & EAGx messages. Hard limit at 1:30pm (just set two alarms on my phone)
Whitelist—Roam/ research related searches. Phone calls/ texts are unblocked from a certain set of people, who I’ve told can reach me there. (I set them in the emergency contact list), but besides that, my iPhone is in “focus mode” with all notifications hidden.
Exception handling: I don’t think I’ll need one, but I can let my roommate know and ask for his social support. (Specifically call me out if he sees me on my phone at other times, haha)
I normally journal, so that’ll help with logging.
(I think everyone should have well-defined exception handling, because some of you will have crazy shit happen, like “someone died”, and that can make it hard if you’re pondering “do I let myself have an allowance now?”. Failing to plan is planning to fail (in not-wholly-improbable worlds).)
I’m unsure about this now. I think there may generally be way better ways to cope (eg sleeping, walks, reading a book, hanging with friends).
A different thought: Clarifying the core thing you don’t like about having media always on (maybe the compulsion that leads to distractedness) may make your idea easier to communicate and look different in actions/plans produced. Like I’m fine with watching a movie with a friend or playing a video game with my roommate for an hour.
A slightly different thought: setting alarms on my phone if I’m looking at my phone for the time because I have a meeting, or I’m waiting on someone to message me timely information has been helpful. I can set a timer for an hour and check my phone then in case they’ve messaged. Or set the timer 5 minutes before my meeting, so I don’t have to think about it.