“It requires more discipline to use Twitter well than to abandon it.” This is so thought-provoking--I am sometimes guilty of “technology is evil and rotting our brains”-type hyperbole. But the truth is I just need to find the willpower to keep only the tech tools/accompanying habits that serve me and put the rest (read: mindless Instagram scrolling, checking work emails for no reason, spending hours reading petty comments on Reddit) back in the box lest they deplete me. Easier said than done, of course 😊
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.” ~ Frank Herbert, Dune
“It requires more discipline to use Twitter well than to abandon it.” This is so thought-provoking--I am sometimes guilty of “technology is evil and rotting our brains”-type hyperbole. But the truth is I just need to find the willpower to keep only the tech tools/accompanying habits that serve me and put the rest (read: mindless Instagram scrolling, checking work emails for no reason, spending hours reading petty comments on Reddit) back in the box lest they deplete me. Easier said than done, of course 😊
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.” ~ Frank Herbert, Dune
Can’t say it better than the master.