Chris Liss on Nostr: Hard to tell sometimes whether time spent on social media is wasted. Am I distracting ...

Hard to tell sometimes whether time spent on social media is wasted. Am I distracting myself or in my lab, doing experiments and learning?

Took five days off this week on a ski trip, didn’t miss it at all. No withdrawal whatsoever.

Very easy to get caught up in “Twitter is bad”, rather than observing the experience. Nostr is cleaner, there’s no algorithm trying to pull me in, but maybe I’m defeating the Twitter one, not falling for its manipulations.

Or maybe, thinking I’ve defeated it, and no longer viewing it as “bad” is the ultimate capitulation, like the person in prison who doesn’t know it and therefore has no desire to escape.

I don’t know. Things like social media time or whether I eat a bunch of sugar seem less and less consequential. Like if there is a God, and I do believe in a God of sorts, He could not possibly care about trivialities like these.

You will cut the sugar when you feel heavy and less energized. You will shut off the monitor when there’s nothing of value transmitted on its screen. You can trust yourself to do this. You do not need an internal dictator managing your affairs for you like you are a child.

Even a child would rebel against it. Maybe the problem is we didn’t rebel against it enough.