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Christopher Mims Jul 19, 2023

had an insight into what I'm aiming for in terms of my relationship with technology

I call it living an "analog life"

it doesn't literally mean that the tech I use has to be analog

it means that I'm trying to return to as much of a pre-smartphone existence as possible

more thoughts on this later, but I'm curious how anyone else has tried for this in their own life?

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cstrauber Jul 19, 2023

@mimsical The biggest thing for me is turning off nearly all notifications on my phone. That way I'm not constantly interrupted, but I still have an infinite version of the book I always carried, and the camera I would have carried if it weren't a pain.

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Christopher Mims

@cstrauber yeah I did this long ago and it's been huge for me. I don't have push notifications on for anything save Google Photos (I enjoy seeing "on this day a year ago" type notifications)