How can I escape doom scrolling and reduce the distraction of social media?

Throw your phone away.

Throw your laptop away.

So this phenomenon recently coined doom scrolling.

It's almost as though we are seeking out our own doom, our own discontent in ways

and the reason we do that is because we do get something from it.

Otherwise we wouldn't do it evolutionarily.

It wouldn't make sense.

Just like the reason our attention pings from one place to another is so we don't get

eaten by some predator or attacked by some other tribe.

And so that's a feature.

But also the doom scrolling, we're getting something out of us, or at least we're telling

ourselves that we're getting something out of seeking out that news or that information.

I would not put that second point on as a given.

Just accept that people are doing this.

Not that we are supposed to or that there's some value that we're getting out of it.

I would put that as a question mark.

Are we getting some value out of this?

Because there's a very important component that we have to acknowledge.

We are not neutral participants in a fair fight with social media.

media has been designed by not just an engineer or two but teams of algorithm builders that

have designed ways to harness our attention.

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