Thanks for sharing as well!

Thank you for sharing, that’s awesome!

Does anyone know who this original tweet, that is referenced, is from?

What helps me really well with text selection is to zoom in quite a bit.

I developed a habit of going out to get sweet pastries until I realized that I can easily make, for example, puff pastries at home just combining some cheaply available base ingredients and getting more for less money and have it taste just the way I like.

Thanks for sharing, this is a very insightful read.

I just bought https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B09PHMS83L/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and it’s working fine for me. Might be about the combination of all components though (phone, charger, cable, headphones)?

There arw usb-c/heasphone-jack Y-cables so you can charge while listening to music without going for a full blown usb-c hub

Yeah, really sucks that they removed MicroSD slots from their phones. 😔

With the demise of SD slots in high end phones, I’m mostly ‘stuck’ with Samsung, since I want at least 512gb device storage and few manufacturers offer that much. Also, while still far from perfect, DeX is rather nice to have

I have been using my S22 Ultra as a Modem for quite some time now, works like a charm. Although I’m directly using the persobal hotspot. Attaching it to a router via USB would probably require just the right setup

This reminds me of a quote, I read in the context of stoicism once, which was along the lines of: “The best place to practice your philosophy is where you are” and I agree fully with that and the post above. Sometimes moving can be sensible and necessary but I think we might have turned the aim for simplicity into an unhealthy sport sometimes.

Great article! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much for sharing this article! It is a very stimulating read as I’m on my own journey to (re-)discover what activities brought me joy, bring me joy and might bring me more joy in the future. Especially the part about obsessing and just spending absurd amount of resources as a source for frustration was really interesting to me!

I haven’t read the book and I also didn’t mean to take away from the conclusion that our attention span is gone and the way we interact with social media is at fault. However, I strongly oppose phrasing such things in a way that make us look like victims who aren’t in control of our lives. Take for example alcohol: It’s a drug that everyone knows is bad for the body, yet many people drink it. We are enticed by ads and peer pressure to join the “alcohol drinkers” and yet, if someone becomes an alcoholic or at least overly inclined to alcohol consumption, nobody says “their sobriety was stolen from them” but “they became a drinker/alcoholic”.

So yeah, I wholeheartedly agree that we need to tackle this issue both on an individual level and as a society, I just also think that we need to accept, that we always had it in our hands.

While I agree, that we have stumbled into a collective ADHS induced by modern social media (consumption), I dislike the fatalistic way of saying “our attention was stolen”. It wasn’t stolen, we handed it over. Everyone was in charge of doing so and thus, we, as a society, are also in charge of gaining our attention back. Nothing stops us from not using all these apps and reconnecting at an actual person to person level. So let’s give it our best, read books, enjoy walks and learn to focus again.

That’s one nice long listen and some good advice in there to try and get off the dopamine addiction caused by smartphones.

That’s a good argument. There is a similar concept in sports, where “recovery” is often misunderstood as spending a day on the couch doing as much nothing as possible. While, in reality, recovery means that you should be doing “light sports” to keep the body stimulated while regaining strength after more strenuous activity.

Thank you for sharing this! It’s a very thought provoking and inspiring article!