I was looking at this package like what the hell got delivered to my house I don't understand what what did I order that's about this size and about I don't know I know what it is I like that you sit and look at the box and try and work it out before you butts.

We're going into a topic that I'm not really even sure

how to explain myself.

So this is a hard thing to start.

Yeah, I completely follow you and I think that this will come through in our conversation today,

but I think to try and fill people in on what we're about to start talking about today. You vaguely mentioned at the end of

the last episode that you were working on a blog post, right? And I ended up including it in the

show notes, but we didn't talk about it on the show because it wasn't out yet you hadn't finished it

And this post was called dialing down which you put up

C.G. gray.com on your blog there and you're basically talking about I'm going to put words in your

mouth and I'm going to ask you to try and summarize it what you've written basically

talking about the effect that the internet has on your life and how you're trying to shut some of it out.

Yeah, yeah, I think that's fair.

Uh, that blog post came about in a bit of a strange way because I had been thinking for a while about trying to take a bit of a step back from the internet.

And I mean the internet in a very, very Broadway right now, which we'll talk about a bit

more later, perhaps.

But I was thinking about taking a step back from the internet, and it started with me thinking that, oh, maybe I want to just not be on Twitter as much as I am.

And so I started to write a tweet thinking,

let me just say that I'm going to stay off Twitter for a little while.

This will publicly commit me to being off Twitter for a little while,

and I'll just post it quickly and just kind of get on with the day.

But of course, Twitter has the 140 character limit and so I tried

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