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sculpting online experiences

Inspired by Brandon's A Follow Up to: Adding a Little Friction to My Computing (blog deleted)

Instead of adding friction to getting online, how can you add ease to getting what you want?

Is the root cause of your problem getting online, or rather what you choose to engage with after getting online?

Staying offline can solve the problem of getting online, but I don't think it's the root cause of your problem. The things you already do online with little to no fuss show as much.

If you took charge of your online engagement, the built-up momentum from quick action and brief appreciation naturally builds up resistance to choosing poor engagements.

Flip your focus from evils to slay to good to instill. In this case, quitting cold turkey only works so well when so many healthy online approached already exist.

External platforms are likely large enough to migrate elsewhere within them. Even if they aren't, you can still change your technique for how you use them.

Sculpt your online experience how you want to. You can reclaim the reins.

I suspect your smartphone is not the problem just like your computer or being extremely online is not the problem. Similarly, I don't see spending more time having exciting conversations with friends, sharing useful discoveries, and producing creative works as a problem.

You can cherish breaks while preferring healthy relationship-building to guilt-inducing abstinence.

Why free yourself from online commotion you both love and hate when you can learn to be above it? Engage what you care about instead to respect the sovereignty of your own attention.

Something eventually replaces what bad habits you're trying to wean off of. You might as well be an active participant in picking and committing to the replacement.

Information firehoses exist. You can change how you view and handle the firehose.

If you want to read more books, what if you focused your sights on reading over reducing internet time?

Spend less time minimizing unwanted behaviors, which give them power until you relapse. Spend more time maximizing wanted behaviors, which naturally oust evils by starving them of attention.

As powerful as your immediate environmental design is, you can find the simplicity you desire within you.

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