Nancy’s 2022 Top 5 Modes of Self-Regulation
<p>A few years ago I read “How to Do Nothing,” by Jenny Odell. It’s about resisting the attention economy, which is a struggle for me. I wish that it wasn’t. I trend toward the compulsive side when it comes to technology and social media. Sometimes I turn on my phone and swipe through to an app like Instagram without even knowing that I’m doing it. I’m in the app before I’m consciously <em>in the app</em>. I cycle through seasons of removing all — the-things! all-the-socials! from my phone in a rather pathetic attempt to regulate myself and soon enough I’m reinstalling them one by one, only to remove them again three months later. I’m sort of over it. Which is to say I’m over myself, I guess! Maybe this will be the year I delete them all for good.</p>
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