Samba wants to jourrnal (curerntly DMSI)

[Frankie]

Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent - The New York Times

Silicon Valley Nannies Are Phone Police for Kids - The New York Times

A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley - The New York Times

Apple's Tim Cook: 'I don't want my nephew on a social network' | Apple | The Guardian

Melinda Gates: I spent my career in technology. I wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids. - The Washington Post

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" A drug dealer never consumes. " as shown above, therefore you might wanna read this book written by Adam Lee Alter:

https://www.amazon.com/Irresistible-Addi...B01HNJIK70


We don't really have any kinda 12-step interventions for that kinda stuff unless we wanna lock ourselves up for the sake of a digital detox or something, as always many things in the real world should be addictive by design and by default.

After reading that book mentioned before, you'll understand why Netflix (or just about any streaming services) might seem to be relatively "cheap" but in the end the "game" here should be more about how they're watching (and tracking) your activities and habits etc. In other words, someone might be happy to watch their shows but it's more like the other way around.

By the same token, this is essentially the whole point of social media:

https://ethannonsequitur.com/facebook-yo...duct-pigs/


There's a guy called Mark Cunningham and you could Google the term "conditioning with pleasure" if you like, that's pretty much how those tech companies managed to get us completely hooked and glued to the screen all day long. A dopamine hit here and there, the boiling frog wouldn't be able to go anywhere.

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At some point it wouldn't hurt to consider making new friends who might appear to be a "better fit" for our purpose in life, we human beings are social animals and most likely we'd like to mimic what others are doing.

I was also playing stuff like SNES (Super Nintendo) games all the time when I was still a little kid, then I moved on to computers and Windows etc. when dial-up Internet access became fairly affordable.

Back in the days when I was in college, some "interesting trackers" could be found online and that's how I got into studying quite a bit about Jungian Psychology etc.

Once I grew older, I realized that my lifestyle choices weren't exactly ideal and health issues came up on a regular basis. The average medical professionals would only have what it takes to manage the symptoms, while we're always on our own whenever RCA (Root Cause Analysis) is sorely needed.

Pay attention to the term "gut-brain axis" since it's literally a game changer, this one could be a good place to start with 600+ references, totally *NOT* even trying to provide any kinda medical advice over the Internet but it's more like a good place to start:

https://plantcenterednutrition.us/gut-he...-part-one/

But he also realized that what he had been taught in his 16 years of medical training wouldn’t be of any help to him. Which is why he looked elsewhere – ideally without changing his diet, as it was still checking all his boxes. So, Dr B started to exercise more. But that wasn’t solving all of his health problems, either.

It wasn’t until he went on a date with his now wife and mother of their children, that he realized it was the food he was eating that was making him ill. He started with a very small change: One day, he made a random green smoothie. And to his surprise, he felt amazing and energized afterwards! This was the moment he realized that he had just discovered something that his body has been needing for a very long time.

TBH that's pretty much what I did at the very beginning, just green smoothies for breakfasts and lunches on a daily basis. I was like feeling "brand spanking new" after only a few months and the pain finally went away after bothering me so many years.

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Hopefully I wasn't breaking any rules whatsoever, sometimes relatively simple (not necessarily easy) lifestyle changes might lead to much better quality of life:

https://www.clevelandsportshall.com/esse...aldwell-b/

Sitting No. 6 as a member of Yale’s eight-man crew, the underdog team won the 1956 Olympic gold medal during the Melbourne games. After the college crew failed to win its opening race, the Elis came back to win their next three, knocking off favorites Canada and host Australia on Lane Wendouree in Ballarat, Australia.

He has since lived up to the motto of his Olympic champion team: “Press on Regardless.”

Small daily steps.

Time and adherence.

Progress over perfection.