GREAT NEWS YOU ABSOLUTELY can READ Substack ON YOUR KINDLE!! And it’s better because it becomes a weekly finite digest. I will give you the steps, you can google the particulars for each one:
1. Create an Instapaper account
2. Find your Instapaper email address (when you fwd an email to that address it gets saved to Instapaper.
3. Create filters in your gmail inbox that automatically send certain newsletters (like any address that contains substack.com) to your Instapaper email.
4. Get your kindle email address.
5. In Instapaper settings go to the kindle section. Choose daily or weekly digest and enter your kindle email. It’ll now send you a little magazine of all of your newsletters and articles you’ve saved that week.
I took all the socials off my phone because I was so addicted to them. It worked for a while but I ended up trading one addiction for another. I started playing games just to fill the time while I was waiting for doctors appointments, etc. The next thing I knew I was constantly on my phone leveling up. Deleted all the games yesterday and now I’m listening to audiobooks instead. Maybe I’ll actually better myself, depending on the books I choose of course.
I totally get that, I even find myself checking Substack in the same way I would Facebook. Hoping for likes, it's just not a healthy experience. I understand the whole gaming thing too. Audiobooks are a good idea, what have you been listening to most recently?
I think you’re describing the best smartphone strategy. Periodically take inventory of what’s been wasting time, or causing unnecessary stress, and adjust accordingly. Smartphones have so much practical utility, that it is far simpler to count the time-wasters than to make a list of what’s actually helpful.
Ever since I read this piece, I think of your analogy of walking into a room and forgetting what you’re there for when you pick up and scroll through social media. It has helped me stop the scroll to a degree.
I’m experimenting with no social media on my phone, and trying to make it instead become my optimal “thinking tool”. A big help in this has been finding an equivalent to long-form writing on my phone. While I need a laptop to engage in rapid, flow-state induced writing, I’m discovering I can slowly aggregate the same length of writing by collecting bits and pieces throughout the day. I just need a good, *single* place to collect that writing. Right now, Obsidian is proving itself to be useful in this regard.
It’s a good question. I’m leaning into the daily notes feature, and just using that as an ongoing place to capture thought throughout the day. The result is similar to when I do a focused journaling session, but it’s happening in the background intermittently over hours. The question for me right now is whether I can integrate anything else (tasks, health logs, etc) into this system without disrupting my chain of thought.
I would say you are really a young Gen X, except the most important quality of being Gen X - you wouldn’t give a fuck about someone’s silly timeline and truly would not give a fuck about young millennials thinking the U.S. version of The Office was better. 😉
hahah! You made me laugh out loud then. Nah, I'm definately not a Gen-X, but it does feel nice to be call young. You do have a point about not giving a fuck about young millenials thinking the US office is better, I jest about it, but it's a bloody waste of my energy :-D
The latter you are incorrect about lol but I don't care ;-)
If I made you laugh, then I’m happy. (And even though I am an American, I agree that the US version of the office, while being quite good, doesn’t surpass the original.)
Hey man, thanks for being so honest about it all. I think everyone on here should share their perspective on it. I look forward to your Light Phone ting. Love to you x
GREAT NEWS YOU ABSOLUTELY can READ Substack ON YOUR KINDLE!! And it’s better because it becomes a weekly finite digest. I will give you the steps, you can google the particulars for each one:
1. Create an Instapaper account
2. Find your Instapaper email address (when you fwd an email to that address it gets saved to Instapaper.
3. Create filters in your gmail inbox that automatically send certain newsletters (like any address that contains substack.com) to your Instapaper email.
4. Get your kindle email address.
5. In Instapaper settings go to the kindle section. Choose daily or weekly digest and enter your kindle email. It’ll now send you a little magazine of all of your newsletters and articles you’ve saved that week.
That's amazing! Thanks so much!
Thank you for sharing! You are awesome!!
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I took all the socials off my phone because I was so addicted to them. It worked for a while but I ended up trading one addiction for another. I started playing games just to fill the time while I was waiting for doctors appointments, etc. The next thing I knew I was constantly on my phone leveling up. Deleted all the games yesterday and now I’m listening to audiobooks instead. Maybe I’ll actually better myself, depending on the books I choose of course.
I totally get that, I even find myself checking Substack in the same way I would Facebook. Hoping for likes, it's just not a healthy experience. I understand the whole gaming thing too. Audiobooks are a good idea, what have you been listening to most recently?
I think you’re describing the best smartphone strategy. Periodically take inventory of what’s been wasting time, or causing unnecessary stress, and adjust accordingly. Smartphones have so much practical utility, that it is far simpler to count the time-wasters than to make a list of what’s actually helpful.
Exactly, they are absolutely amazing devices, it just seems that people have taken advantage of how on-demand they can be.
Ever since I read this piece, I think of your analogy of walking into a room and forgetting what you’re there for when you pick up and scroll through social media. It has helped me stop the scroll to a degree.
Glad it helped, I’ll have to think of more analogies as I find them helpful myself.
I’m experimenting with no social media on my phone, and trying to make it instead become my optimal “thinking tool”. A big help in this has been finding an equivalent to long-form writing on my phone. While I need a laptop to engage in rapid, flow-state induced writing, I’m discovering I can slowly aggregate the same length of writing by collecting bits and pieces throughout the day. I just need a good, *single* place to collect that writing. Right now, Obsidian is proving itself to be useful in this regard.
Thanks for your comment Micah, I checked out Obsidian and it looks good so far. Any tips on it's usage?
It’s a good question. I’m leaning into the daily notes feature, and just using that as an ongoing place to capture thought throughout the day. The result is similar to when I do a focused journaling session, but it’s happening in the background intermittently over hours. The question for me right now is whether I can integrate anything else (tasks, health logs, etc) into this system without disrupting my chain of thought.
Ah that’s interesting. Looking forward to hearing how it develops
I would say you are really a young Gen X, except the most important quality of being Gen X - you wouldn’t give a fuck about someone’s silly timeline and truly would not give a fuck about young millennials thinking the U.S. version of The Office was better. 😉
hahah! You made me laugh out loud then. Nah, I'm definately not a Gen-X, but it does feel nice to be call young. You do have a point about not giving a fuck about young millenials thinking the US office is better, I jest about it, but it's a bloody waste of my energy :-D
The latter you are incorrect about lol but I don't care ;-)
If I made you laugh, then I’m happy. (And even though I am an American, I agree that the US version of the office, while being quite good, doesn’t surpass the original.)
Aw thank you. And wow, that’s music to my ears :-)
brother this is beautiful thank you for writing it the madness is wild and especially interesting to read from someone else's POV.
Soon I shall be posting about my switch to The Light Phone and let me just tell you now, shit has gotten changed
Hey man, thanks for being so honest about it all. I think everyone on here should share their perspective on it. I look forward to your Light Phone ting. Love to you x