Nice! I look forward to seeing your crappy photos, as a certified lurker. Thanks for the tip about "following"! My automatic finger reflex is checking my email, I annoy myself with doing it at all hours!
I have the New Yorker app on my phone and that's my go-to "I'm bored for a few min on the bus" app. But they only have so many stories, and I wait for the magazine to read the ones in print, which keeps it from feeling like a bottomless pit of news. The New Yorker isn't trying to report on everything that happens every day; that pace is too much for me; I prefer the deep dive. I feel informed, but not overwhelmed. And yeah sometimes I learn about something through a face-to-face interaction of "Oh didn't you hear about [event]?" and I'm ok with that. Anyway, just to say, if you're ready for news again I recommend picking one source, possibly weekly instead of daily (maybe the local paper on Sundays?) to keep it manageable. At least, that's how I've found balance!
My new news source (which was my old news source, I just stopped reading it) is Morning Brew, it's an email roundup of top stories, it's quite charming and makes the news a little easier to swallow: morningbrew.com/daily/r/?kid=81748f30
I've also always been a fan of Up First, since it's the 10-minute version of NPR. For deep dives I looove The Atlantics, though those are only loosely "news."
I loved reading your saga with social media and related to SO MANY of these things. I'm definitely trying to have fun, but for me the biggest thing I struggle with is comparing myself to others which isn't even fair. I want to know how I'm doing and social media does not provide a report card so that's the easiest and least accurate next worst thing. It's so inaccurate especially since social media is a fickle thing and can punish behaviors that were just rewarded the day before. It was nice reading this and being reminded again that I'm not the only one who has a love/hate relationship with this whole thing.
PS I use an app called ScreenZen that has helped me reduce my time on most social media platforms. It makes you wait a set amount of time before you can open it, then lets you only use it for a certain time; it's been surprisingly helpful!
Thank you! And soooo true on the comparing to others. ScreenZen looks amazing, I have already installed it. I love the extra step before letting you open the app, that is just what I need to not go on autopilot.
Nice! I look forward to seeing your crappy photos, as a certified lurker. Thanks for the tip about "following"! My automatic finger reflex is checking my email, I annoy myself with doing it at all hours!
I have the New Yorker app on my phone and that's my go-to "I'm bored for a few min on the bus" app. But they only have so many stories, and I wait for the magazine to read the ones in print, which keeps it from feeling like a bottomless pit of news. The New Yorker isn't trying to report on everything that happens every day; that pace is too much for me; I prefer the deep dive. I feel informed, but not overwhelmed. And yeah sometimes I learn about something through a face-to-face interaction of "Oh didn't you hear about [event]?" and I'm ok with that. Anyway, just to say, if you're ready for news again I recommend picking one source, possibly weekly instead of daily (maybe the local paper on Sundays?) to keep it manageable. At least, that's how I've found balance!
My new news source (which was my old news source, I just stopped reading it) is Morning Brew, it's an email roundup of top stories, it's quite charming and makes the news a little easier to swallow: morningbrew.com/daily/r/?kid=81748f30
I've also always been a fan of Up First, since it's the 10-minute version of NPR. For deep dives I looove The Atlantics, though those are only loosely "news."
I loved reading your saga with social media and related to SO MANY of these things. I'm definitely trying to have fun, but for me the biggest thing I struggle with is comparing myself to others which isn't even fair. I want to know how I'm doing and social media does not provide a report card so that's the easiest and least accurate next worst thing. It's so inaccurate especially since social media is a fickle thing and can punish behaviors that were just rewarded the day before. It was nice reading this and being reminded again that I'm not the only one who has a love/hate relationship with this whole thing.
PS I use an app called ScreenZen that has helped me reduce my time on most social media platforms. It makes you wait a set amount of time before you can open it, then lets you only use it for a certain time; it's been surprisingly helpful!
PPS I hope you feel better soon!!!
Thank you! And soooo true on the comparing to others. ScreenZen looks amazing, I have already installed it. I love the extra step before letting you open the app, that is just what I need to not go on autopilot.