Since being retired, I’ve pondered possibly restarting.
I’m currently reading Four Thousand Weeks-Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkemen.
He makes some excellent arguments against restarting:
“Each time you open a social media app, there are a thousand people on the other side of the screen paid to keep you there-and so it’s unrealistic to expect users to resist the assault on their time and attention by means of will power alone.”
“If you’re convinced…that social media hasn’t turned you into an angrier, less empathetic, more anxious, or more numbed-out version of yourself-that might be because it has.”
“Long after I’d closed the app, I’d be panting on the treadmill at the gym, or chopping carrots for dinner, only to find myself mentally prosecuting a devastating argument against some idiotic holder of wrong opinions I’d had the misfortune to encounter online earlier that day.”
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