having to wear helmets and kneepads and seatbelts isn’t to blame.
what’s to blame is perpetually being terrified of being woken up in the middle of the night by a a phone alert that your amazon prime subscription got suspended because your debit card charge was declined. maybe it won’t happen, and maybe it’s never happened, but it could!
and ever since smartphones came out, your brain has been trained to think of that type of shit, and nothing else, for every nanosecond of your waking (and sleeping) life. and it’s killing us.
My phone is permanently on mute, any people or notifications that aren’t in my explicitly allow list get to STFU until I wake up. You don’t have to let your phone make noise while you sleep.
I also have ‘sleep mode’ mute. it was an abstract example. you get what I’m saying, though. our brains have basically been rewired to respond to smartphones as a constant form of stimulus. it’s crazy.
Yeah, there’s even built-in sleep modes on phones. You turn it on and only your closest contacts can get hold of you. All other notifications wait until morning. This is a solved problem.
having to wear helmets and kneepads and seatbelts isn’t to blame.
what’s to blame is perpetually being terrified of being woken up in the middle of the night by a a phone alert that your amazon prime subscription got suspended because your debit card charge was declined. maybe it won’t happen, and maybe it’s never happened, but it could!
and ever since smartphones came out, your brain has been trained to think of that type of shit, and nothing else, for every nanosecond of your waking (and sleeping) life. and it’s killing us.
My phone is permanently on mute, any people or notifications that aren’t in my explicitly allow list get to STFU until I wake up. You don’t have to let your phone make noise while you sleep.
This is how I do it too.
I don’t need my phone interrupting me every 30 seconds because someone reacted to a gif or an e-mail made it through this spam filter gauntlet.
It’s MY tool, not the other way around.
I also have ‘sleep mode’ mute. it was an abstract example. you get what I’m saying, though. our brains have basically been rewired to respond to smartphones as a constant form of stimulus. it’s crazy.
Easy way to avoid this is to not subscribe to Amazon Prime.
it could be any other service or notice. it was just an example
Why don’t you put your phone on do not disturb mode?
Yeah, there’s even built-in sleep modes on phones. You turn it on and only your closest contacts can get hold of you. All other notifications wait until morning. This is a solved problem.
Big if true