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Notes on attention, digital wellbeing, and fasting your feed.

What Is App Fasting? Intermittent Fasting for Your Apps, Explained

App fasting applies the logic of intermittent fasting to your feeds: instead of quitting social media forever, you give your apps eating windows. Here's how it works and why scheduled access beats cold turkey.

· 6 min read

How to Stop Doomscrolling: 7 Tactics That Actually Work

Why your feed is so hard to put down, and seven practical tactics, from tiny habit tweaks to structural enforcement, to finally stop doomscrolling.

· 6 min read

Dopamine Detox Myths: What Actually Helps (and What's Just Hype)

Dopamine isn't a toxin, and you can't reset your brain in a weekend. Here's what the dopamine detox trend gets wrong, and the one sensible idea worth keeping.

· 5 min read

Why Screen Time Limits Don't Work (and What Does)

You set an App Limit with the best intentions, and now you tap Ignore Limit on autopilot. Here's the design flaw behind Screen Time limits, and a windows-based model that actually holds.

· 6 min read

Digital Minimalism Guide: A Practical Way to Start

A calm, practical digital minimalism guide: a gentle 30-day reset, a simple test for which apps earn a place back, and operating procedures that make it stick.

· 6 min read

Why Streaks Work: The Habit Science of Visible Progress

Quitting a habit fails quietly because you can't see yourself succeeding. Streaks fix that with loss aversion, identity evidence, and the don't-break-the-chain effect, if you design them to survive a missed day.

· 6 min read