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Update 2017-02-02: Article by Geoffrey A. Fowler and link to Time Well
Spent and embed two of their videos.

I stumbled over [[http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/the-binge-breaker/501122/][an awesome Atlantic article]] about [[http://www.tristanharris.com/][Tristan Harris]] which
I urge you to read.

Tristan is a well-served Silicon Valley pro who likes to think about
reducing interruptions, stop the addiction to mobile devices or cloud
services, eat healthy food, and try to live in the present, focusing on
stuff that really matters.

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He has some very good points, some of which I also try to spread for
many years.

The article gives some great insight on motivations of companies like
facebook, Google, Apple, and LinkedIn. They design interfaces to get
people addicted. Sometimes this is done deliberately, sometimes this
is just coincidence or a by-product.

The Wall Street Journal featured [[https://www.wsj.com/articles/take-back-your-brain-from-social-media-1485968678?mod=itp&mod=djemITP_h][this article by Geoffrey A. Fowler]]
which lists many opportunities to reduce interruptions, distractions,
and triggers.

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I am guilty as hell to be addicted to too many things. This has come
to my mind not just in recent time but it is starting to bug me more
and more. Some things are very easy to adapt to my personal life such
as disabled notifications, [[id:apps-I-am-using][app choices]], and app settings. Some things
are really hard to change: Twitter, too many items on my [[id:tags-emacs][org-mode]]
agenda, large number of cool blog articles stuck in the pipeline, too
many (good) ideas and hardly any big outcome, not writing the PIM book
I am dreaming about for years, and so forth.

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You will read about my journey to reduce addictions in the future.
I'll keep you informed on my blog which will stay my main online
communication/publishing focus. Yes, I am looking at you, Twitter
addiction! There is a movement called [[http://www.timewellspent.io/][Time Well Spent]] which tries to
«align technology with our humanity». Surely interesting stuff to
follow. The embedded videos are from this web page.


Feel free to send me an email or a Disqus comment below and drop me
a line on how you are defeating IT addictions and start living in the
present more intensely.