Man I feel like an underrated part of why I’m so anxious is the fact that I have to track like 4-5 mediums of communication all the time. Getting mail once a day and then your phone ringing if somebody needs something? Seems incredible
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In the past ~year I’ve become an unapologetic “my phone doesn’t ding / I’ll see it when I see it” guy. Your mileage may vary personally/professionally, but emotionally it’s been super energizing
I still bemoan the loss of old school BBS mail packets. Dial in, download the QWK file, peruse the new posts and draft replies offline, then 12-24h later dial back in and upload your replies and get new posts. Everybody was lagged by one cycle vs everybody else and the chats were less knee jerk
I basically stopped checking private messages on social media apps because they're so constant and overwhelming when I have very little energy due to chronic illness. I feel bad about it but it's just not worth the stress of having 4 or 5 different messaging systems to need to check.
That’s really something people don’t consider when they think about “the good old days”
One of the key reasons they were “good” was that everyone lived in their own little realm of importance and only focused on a subset of what was going on in the world.
and- those mediums of communication are all TRACKING YOU!!! and STEALING YOUR DATA!!! like 30 years ago we didn't have data to steal and no way to steal it.
no one was screenshotting your text and spending 3 hours writing a reply with their other friends. the layers of added social stress is bananas
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b) whenever there's a mention of more than one daily paper.
The evening news! Can you imagine. That's the most news we'd EVER need
One of the key reasons they were “good” was that everyone lived in their own little realm of importance and only focused on a subset of what was going on in the world.
Imagine if we fought WW II today.
no one was screenshotting your text and spending 3 hours writing a reply with their other friends. the layers of added social stress is bananas
Vikram is arriving soon in a Volkswagen Jetta
(5464GH). After arriving, they'll wait 2 minutes before charges begin for their time.