I am going to try, going forward, to just have one hour of internet use a day. That's laptop and phone data, primarily. My one hour today includes writing this post directly into blogger's text editor. Why do this? Because I can remember the happiest days of my life. They were days where I had no internet and what felt like unlimited free time. Of course, I am older now with a few more things I have to take care of-- but I can strive to recreate that time. Or to bring that time in the past forward in time to the now.
What prompted me to do this? Partly memory, partly my own realization of just how much time I spend wrapped up in a dopamine drip youtube bubble, and partly some things that Nassim Taleb talks about in Black Swan about how adding more information to a person tends to add more 'noise' in the 'signal to noise ratio' sense. So in some things more information is actually toxic to a person's well being and decision making.
I am not sure how it will go. If I were certain of benefits, I'd already be doing it, right? So it's an experiment for me. Which also doesn't mean it will be 'good for everyone'. Or good for me all the time. It's important to view this sort of experiment as play, not as work.
So how can limited internet time lead me to more play and maybe more joy in my life? That's the big one. :D
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