The Traveler Techie

It's not always necessary. Sometimes you can just stop doing the thing, deal with the withdrawal symptoms for a while, and it works itself out. But with Reddit it was different. My problem wasn't doomscrolling; I was actively engaging: A person would ask a question my brain would go "oh I know that one!" I would proceeed to answer that question the OP would thank me then someone out of nowhere, and sometimes after days, weeks, months and even years have passed, would reply with a very insulting response about how wrong I am, and how I should read this book, this research study, this YouTube video, this article, "this is not what [ the name of some influencer who doesn't even have a real job ] said"... then like an idiot, I would respond with something like "I need not do any of those things, because I'm talking from personal experience. The whole reason I was so excited to share is because this is an actual solution that has solved the same pro...

First, the No Surf subreddit's description, in case you're not familiar: Stop spending life on the net. NoSurf is a community of people who are focused on becoming more productive and wasting less time mindlessly surfing the internet. Okay. This so-called laser focused and productive community is actually all about making posts and giving advice about "how they got rid of social media"... in the /r/nosurf subreddit... while they're still on Reddit. Does Reddit not count as social media? And have you seen some of these people's profile and history? I thought I considered myself a very active Redditor, but they're on that platform as if it was oxygen. And actively engaging on all the wrong subreddits too! Subreddits I would never even dare step my foot into! Then you got the people who do count Reddit as social media, posting on Reddit about how toxic Reddit is and that you should delete the app and go outside... Meanwhile these same people who just gave yo...

It's okay to be a slow reader. It's okay not to finish all the books on your list at the span of your lifetime. It's also okay to read ancient, difficult books nobody's heard of and having to look up words at the dictionary all the time. What's not okay, is to rush the reading process just to be able to announce to the world "I've read 400 books in 6 months" but taking nothing of value from them, and worse -- applying none of it to improve your life. If even all you have learned in those 1357 pages of that one book from the 3 books you read in 5 years, was just one small sentence, that book was worth reading. And most of the times, summaries of books (whether AI or human-made) are not going to be enough to discover that sentence, let alone allow you to grasp its full meaning. Sometimes you need those 263 pages of detailed context leading up to that sentence, in order for that sentence to have a permanent impact on you and to give you strong enough reas...