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Interestingly, I’ve found that things which should be chores, for example checking my messages or notifications, have started to become treats — I get a dopamine rush from doing them.
I think if I want to cut down my phone use, I need to start consciously treating these things as chores instead. The only reason I do them should be because I have to do them.
<p class='cite'><a href='https://ethan.link/' target='_blank' title='Ethan’s personal website'>Ethan</a>, <cite><a href='https://ethan.link//blog/treats-vs-chores/' target='_blank' title='Threats vs chores'>Threats vs chores</a></cite></p>
Here are three things that I’ve learned in the past 12 months: Technology showed its utility by helping people and businesses manage through a crisis. Our increasingly digital lives have also created new problems that will be hard to fix. And the most important things have nothing to do with technology.
<p class='cite'><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/by/shira-ovide' target='_blank' title='Shira Ovide on The New York Times'>Shira Ovide</a>, <cite><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/technology/our-virtual-pandemic-year.html' target='_blank' title='On Tech: Our Virtual Pandemic year'>Our Virtual Pandemic year</a></cite></p>