I’m currently trying to figure out how to use RSS for this reason.

Thanks for the recommend! I just finished it (I’m also not actually gonna do the 30 day plan). Even though my internet vices aren’t actually on my phone, and my phone might as well be a dumb phone with how little I use it, the book was still uber relevant to my life. Part One in the book that went over the negative effects of tons of media consumption was the wake up call I was looking for. I definitely notice many of the negative effects mentioned in the book in my life… I wanna take back my free time and attention :)

Bonus points that the book is entertaining. It has a few actually good jokes, and useful perspectives. And it’s not at all preachy or judgey (which sometimes is a pet peeve of mine with self help books - where they feel like they’re trying to sell you an ideology too hard).

Pretty crazy that the book is from 2018 and is still so relevant - if anything I feel like our knowledge that media addiction is bad for us has only gotten stronger, and as a population our media addictions have also gotten stronger - and more socially acceptable. I’d love to read a similar thing that was more modern and could scare me with up to date statistics that knew about TikToc and such.

Yeah I was thinking about checking them out. I looked at their pricing model and was really confused and put off by it. Makes it seem like you have to pay more to be better informed. The lowest paid tier for example doesn’t show the factuality score of a publisher, which I feel like would be important to me, but who knows maybe it doesn’t come into affect with how they show the news.

Does seem like they support RSS feeds which is sweet

I definitely don’t need it for anything. I might just note down some of my ambient music playlist that I like to work to. I’ll have to figure out a new news source for political news, maybe this weekend I’ll try setting up an RSS reader to aggregate some sources. But yeah, political news I think is what got me to start using YouTube a lot more since I’d be waiting to hear about updates to all this craziness (in the USA).

This might be the way. I’ve actually been un-googling this week, maybe I should just delete my YT account as well… I think I was just hoping a book would warm me up to the idea, or have insights I hadn’t considered. But I don’t really see even an hour a day of videos daily as something I want in my future.

Pretty sweet! I’m still trying to learn to wheelie my mountain bike so that I can learn to manual after that…

Thanks for the info!

I actually know a bit about low-inflammation diets (mostly low meat and being selective on carbs) from when I was running track. I always saw it as a high-performance thing, but some habits have stuck around. And for a long time I’ve done Meatless-Mondays since it’s an easy and mostly thought-less thing to do.

Thus far, I’ve been pretty un-safe when it comes to mountain biking. Lot’s of little crashes that could have been easily avoided. Fortunately I hate crashing and have been working on risk analysis and I don’t think I’ll lose out on much fun by being 20% safer. I’m currently down-tuning one of my bikes to make it less capable so that it’ll be more fun on simpler trails. With a super capable bike, it sometimes feels like you have to ride the gnarliest things to be having fun. Riding a gravel bike (the least capable of the off-road bikes) on one of my least favorite boring trails was eye-opening to me on how fun “under-biking” is. And any speed decrease increases safety a lot.

I sprained both my wrists in a bike crash, then just as they were nearly healed I crashed again and sprained just my left wrist. After like 9 months it was still bothering me a bit so I decided to go to physical therapy and the exercises cleared everything up in ~3 weeks. Wish I’d known earlier that a brace and limiting movement wasn’t actually helping anything.

I’ve got the supplements, just need to work on making a habit of taking them…

Little bits throughout the day are probably better than lots once a week

I sit at a desk a TON. Started having back problems and was trying to work in exercises to help. What ended up working for me is an hourly notification that gives me a random exercise to do. I’ll usually do a few other exercises with each break as well. It’s been a miracle for my back, and definitely is something I plan to stick with - and should be good for arthritis too it seems!

Great info, thank you!! I’m compiling the things I’ve learned to make a personal list of things to try to add more of to my life, and things to try and have less of. I’m starting to realize that diet isn’t something to ignore just because I’m fit…

I’d buy Magic The Gathering and just make it less greedy

As a teen, I once went to open the microwave but the handle wasn’t attached, it just lifted off. I think one of my siblings broke it and then placed it back carefully. Half my family was in the room when I lifted the handle off and to this day they don’t believe me that it offered 0 resistance and that someone else might have broken it. We kept that microwave for years after that and just had to pry it open with finger nails.

Magic cards Edit: did not get any magic cards. Got some cash though so I may head over to my LGS later this week