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Each post stands alone, so you don’t have to read them all. 154 Read the introduction on “[157]the mindset of more.” 155 156 Too much info, too fast 157 158 Information has a near-physicality to it — we feel the emotional force of 159 content. Although the same volume of information is coming into my feed reader 160 as always, the intensity of the content of late has made it feel like too much. 161 The perceived speed of my intellectual spaces has increased because so much of 162 the information I’m exposed to is emotionally distressing. And going too fast 163 for too long makes me tired — mentally and physically. As someone prone to 164 anxiety, I need to be conscious of how my body internalizes what I’m reading. 165 166 We feel the emotional intensity of what we read from a feed as speed because it 167 seems that a large number of consequential things have happened to us in a 168 short span of time. Caitlin Dewey [158]frames it as being deluged: 169 170 [W]hen it comes to political news… I sometimes feel like I’m standing at 171 the base of some fucked-up virtual waterfall, with thousands of gallons of 172 dense, icy water pounding down ceaselessly on my head. 173 174 Our bodies translate our [159]online emotional experiences into physical 175 realities; our bodies react to what happens in virtual spaces the same way they 176 react in physical spaces, releasing stress hormones and raising our heart rate 177 and blood pressure although we’re sitting still. Chronic stress is terrible for 178 our health. But we wouldn’t spend so much time online if it was only bad – we 179 also receive mental rewards from gathering information. 180 181 I don’t think withdrawing from information altogether is the answer, but I 182 wonder whether we can reclaim some agency by changing the places and ways we’re 183 exposed to information — by controlling our perceived intellectual pace. 184 185 Our intellectual pace is influenced by: 186 187 • the total amount of information we’re exposed to, 188 • how much of it we actually consume, 189 • the information’s emotional intensity, 190 • the place we’re consuming it, and 191 • whether we feel we can do anything about it. 192 193 Who controls our thinking spaces, controls our pace 194 195 The physical and conceptual spaces where we learn and think comprise our 196 intellectual environment: the places we read, listen or watch; and the places 197 where we process what we’ve taken in, whether by talking about it or writing 198 about it. 199 200 Time is experienced relativistically; some hours feel faster to us than others. 201 That sensation of where did the time go?! can happen whenever we’re immersed, 202 whether that’s in flow state, where we are working at our peak ability, or in 203 social media, where we are fully absorbed in the thoughts of others. These 204 types of fast-felt experiences sit at opposite ends of a spectrum of agency. 205 206 When we lack control in our intellectual environments, our mindspaces are not 207 our own. Matt Haig argues in Notes on a Nervous Planet, “The trouble is that if 208 we are plugged in to a vast nervous system, our happiness—and misery—is more 209 collective than ever. The group’s emotions become our own.” 210 211 Our thoughts become dominated by others’ concerns and priorities if we cannot 212 regulate the pace at which we receive them — if we never have time to process 213 them. And given our finite schedules, there’s often an inverse relationship 214 between the time we spend consuming and the time we spend thinking about it. 215 216 Dewey [160]summarizes the impact of the explosion of news sources and the 217 never-ending sensationalized feed: 218 219 “Together, these forces have both accelerated and flattened the news: 220 Everything happens all at once, and everything is a crisis.” 221 222 Controlling the pace of media becomes a tool of power, with political 223 ramifications. If we’re busy watching, we’re not acting. If we’re stuck 224 listening, we’re not thinking. If we’re not sure what’s happening, we’ll wait 225 to gather more information. If we’re constantly playing catch up, we’re always 226 in reactive mode, never proactive. 227 228 Right now, the Trump administration is taking advantage of its control of our 229 attentional spaces to raise our collective mental pace into overdrive. As Ezra 230 Klein [161]puts it, “The flood is a point. The overwhelm is a point. The 231 message wasn’t in any one executive order or announcement. It was in the 232 cumulative effect of all of them.” The hemorrhage of horror is intended to 233 paralyze us by overloading us with information that we don’t have time to 234 process. 235 236 But as Craig Mod [162]challenges, 237 238 “The feed, the doomscroll, the hyperventilation, is the heartbeat of 239 political and social death. It is not life. It is a false heartbeat.” 240 241 Oliver Burkeman [163]encourages us to “make sure your psychological centre of 242 gravity is in your real and immediate world – the world of your family and 243 friends and neighborhood, your work and your creative projects, as opposed to 244 the world of presidencies and governments, social forces and global 245 emergencies.” It is too easy, Burkeman notes, to live “inside the news” rather 246 than our physical reality. Our tools for accessing our thinking spaces — now 247 almost all digital — encourage it. 248 249 The web feels infinite 250 251 Nicholas Carr [164]notices how, online and especially on our phones, our 252 attention transfers from what we’re consuming to how we’re consuming it: “[W] 253 hat engages us more and more is not the content but the mechanism. […] Whatever 254 lies on the other side of the interface seems less and less consequential. The 255 interface is the thing. The interface is the content.” The meta subsumes the 256 factual. The experience overshadows the information. The interface — and its 257 speed — are all-consuming. 258 259 We used to use specialized media, Carr points out — playing a song used a 260 different tool than reading the news — but generalist computers have 261 consolidated the vast majority of our intellectual environment into digital 262 devices. We both play music and read the news on our computer, whether that’s a 263 phone or a desktop PC. A key difference for our experience is that we lost 264 physical transitions between media. 265 266 Friction reduces speed. Analog media naturally provided friction — you had to 267 get up to flip the record, you had to go outside to grab the newspaper — while 268 digital media aims to remove friction from all consumption. The digital format 269 removed the constraints of physicality; this brought us endless scroll, which 270 removed a natural cue to transition activities and deprives of the 271 psychological satisfaction of [165]ever completing anything. Or, as Craig Mod 272 puts it, [166]edges. Edgeless is endless. Without waypoints, it’s easy to spend 273 longer than we realize consuming information and moving from one type of 274 content to another. Without transitions, we exist in an unbroken now that 275 matches the pace of our intellectual space, whether fast or slow. 276 277 Our fastest space raises our baseline pace 278 279 Spending time in a faster-paced space raises our threshold for stimulus as we 280 adapt to its speed. I have found that when I dip back from the slow stream into 281 the fast feed, even with the intention of keeping up with only one or two 282 people, the speed can suck me in again. 283 284 I tried lurking on Bluesky, but once enough people showed up, it had the same 285 delicious taste for me as old Twitter… so I logged out in December and haven’t 286 let myself log back in. A fast-paced environment builds a pattern of 287 consumption and a habit of speed. For me, it is safer to stay out of the swift 288 water altogether. 289 290 The mind must convince the body to change 291 292 In a culture of information superabundance, we need above all else the 293 discipline to say “no” or to set limits upon our engagement with the vast 294 proliferation of digital media. 295 296 —[167]L.M. Sacasas 297 298 To lower my pace, I want to take in less information in total. But it’s not as 299 simple as deciding to take in less information; living that decision is the 300 hard part. A change like this is not just intellectual, but embodied, too. 301 302 When I was trying to escape Twitter’s staccato mode of thinking, I found my 303 muscle memory challenged my mental discipline. I could fully intend not to look 304 at Twitter, but in moments of transition, the habitual movement of my fingers 305 on the keyboard carried me back again and again, forcing me to exercise [168]my 306 will continuously. My subconscious urge to fill any gap with stimulus was 307 powerful. Ultimately, I had to [169]block the site with my Hosts file (and 308 eventually quit my job where I had to use Twitter 😉). My body resisted my 309 conscious desire to stop reading Twitter, and I had to change my environment to 310 force myself to let it go. 311 312 I’m reminded of the Ray Bradbury story [170]Frost and Fire (spoilers for an 313 eighty year old novella 😉), where people’s lives last mere days — then the main 314 characters decide to brave the perilous journey to the spaceship their 315 ancestors left behind. When they enter, their bodies literally slow down, and 316 the hero believes himself to be dying: 317 318 “The ship he had come to for salvation was now slowing his pulse, darkening 319 his brain, poisoning him. With a starved, faint kind of expiring terror, he 320 realized that he was dying. 321 322 […] 323 324 He had a dim sense of time passing, of thinking, struggling, to make his 325 heart go quick, quick…. to make his eyes focus. But the fluid in his body 326 lagged quietly through his settling veins and he heard his pulse thud, 327 pause, thud, pause and thud again with lulling intermissions. 328 329 […] 330 331 Is this death? This slowing of blood, of my heart, this cooling of my body, 332 this drowsy thinking of thoughts?” 333 334 When he finally recovers from the shock, when he acclimates to the new 335 slowness, he realizes the ship has saved him: the slower pace means his life 336 will not end in eight days. The dramatic change in pace felt like dying, so he 337 fought it, but now that his body is no longer racing, his life is comparably 338 infinite. Everyone who stayed behind has grown old in the days he took to 339 adapt. 340 341 I think any sudden change in the pace of our intellectual environment can spark 342 this same kind of physical shock. At the same time, when we are immersed in the 343 feed, it can be hard to notice that our pace is wearing us out and recognize 344 that we have the power to change it. 345 346 We can change our mental — and physical — pace by changing the places where we 347 spend time: choosing new spaces and shaping the ones we choose. We cannot force 348 ourselves to change, but we can create environments for ourselves that 349 encourage and support what we want, and discourage what we don’t want, applying 350 friction with intention. 351 352 Lowering the pace of my online intellectual spaces 353 354 On the open web, we can choose our own pace of information because we — not 355 corporations — are in control of our environment. 356 357 Taking in information across a broad spread of paces 358 359 For finding new things to read online, I mainly turn to my feed reader. I also: 360 361 • use the library catalog and Goodreads as [171]browsing-thinking tools, 362 • get temperature readings from microbloggers on the Fediverse via 363 micro.blog, 364 • explore outwards through the open web from articles and personal websites, 365 • seek answers from DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, and Reddit, 366 • absorb random facts from YouTubers, and 367 • probe more widely with Search My Site and Marginalia Search. 368 369 Some of these are fast spaces, some slow; many let me set my own pace. I’ve 370 corralled most of my media exposure into my feed reader, which helps because I 371 must choose to open it, and have removed access from my phone. But while I 372 generally feel [172]RSS is a healthy way to follow writers, it’s still [173]a 373 feed. And feeds, whether self-curated or assembled by a corporate algorithm, 374 are designed to be an efficient information delivery mechanism. Their function 375 is to provide easy, immediate* access to new information. 376 377 *(James built [174]a slow feed reader!) 378 379 Choosing quieter spaces 380 381 One of the dials I think about for media exposure is how much noise I will 382 tolerate to find signal; accepting more noise means I can find signal from a 383 broader band. The massive spectrum of information and event-dense experience of 384 social media creates a noisy intellectual environment. On RSS, I control how 385 loud my space is, how much chatter I allow in. This intellectual loudness 386 translates into perceived speed. 387 388 To draw on a wide pool of information and sources, I have for years permitted 389 my feed reader to be a noisy — thus relatively fast — space. I’ve erred on the 390 side of subscribing, adding blogs and newsletters to my feed reader with 391 abandon. The quantity and constant influx of information can impose an 392 artificial pressure to consume it; the fact that it exists implies we ought to 393 read it. Granting myself a smaller, tighter pool of reading material to choose 394 from could make exercising mental discipline easier. 395 396 I am starting to unsubscribe from a few feeds, though I am reluctant to remove 397 too many 😉 I am thinking of creating a second RSS feed for myself on a 398 different service, subscribing only to my favorite 20-30 feeds; I can check 399 that during the week, and on weekends, when I have a bit more capacity, can 400 take a peek at my full feed to see if there’s anything I missed. (A lot of 401 times, news seems to play itself out over the span of a week.) 402 403 Using the tools my spaces offer 404 405 I access my online intellectual spaces in my feed reader, read-later app, and 406 internet browser on my phone and desktop computer. The apps have different 407 levels of control, as do the devices. My phone opens me up to a world of 408 distractions with apps as well as access to the open web; my process of reading 409 only from my read-later app on the phone creates a slower environment even on a 410 device biased towards speed. 411 412 The overall stimulus we experience in a space influences how fast it feels. Ads 413 increase visual noise, so [175]I block them on desktop and use DuckDuckGo 414 browser on mobile, which blocks ads way better than Firefox browser. Color adds 415 visual stimulation, so I set up the accessibility shortcut on my phone to 416 toggle me into greyscale mode; if I’m feeling overwhelmed, I can hit that to 417 instantly drop my pace. 418 419 My current process of [176]selecting and reading at different times, using 420 different tools, takes advantage of my read later app’s slow environment. 421 Instapaper doesn’t recommend me a bunch of junk like Pocket did; it’s just my 422 own stuff. (One of the many reasons I quit Pocket.) Using tags — including a ⭐ 423 tag to mark the things I most want to read — and archiving aggressively 424 condenses the amount of information I’m exposed to when I open the app even 425 more. 426 427 I use [177]micro.blog as my most social online space, which I generally look at 428 once or twice a day for ten minutes (and could get away with even less 😉) I 429 picked micro.blog as my connection to the Fediverse because it doesn’t show 430 follower counts or allow reposts (or quote posts, though I personally have 431 found these useful). It’s a pretty small community, and most people are not 432 heavy posters. Between the tooling and the number of users, this means the 433 volume of posts is much lower than Bluesky and corporate silos. 434 435 The feed offers a variety of controls for what I see; I recently muted a few 436 terms related to the corporate silos and generative AI because these topics 437 aren’t really beneficial for me to think about. I also appreciate that it 438 doesn’t have endless scroll, and while you can proceed through a few pages, you 439 cannot go backwards forever in time. The feed has an end. 440 441 Creating endings 442 443 The web may feel infinite, but we can create spaces within it that feel finite. 444 445 New material constantly flows into my feed reader. Every day, there are 20-50 446 new posts I could consider reading. In the past several weeks, I’ve started 447 “marking all as read” in my feed reader after I open anything that looks 448 interesting, whereas in the past I’d leave it all visible and peruse it a 449 second or third time. 450 451 I’m also working on leaving fewer tabs open in my phone browser. (I aim for 452 just one at the end of the day — my weeknotes draft post for easy access 453 throughout the week — but sometimes that don’t happen 😉) This is a practice in 454 letting go of what I won’t read or use, in acknowledging my time limitations 455 and sticking to my own priorities. Especially in the current news environment, 456 I have to be honest with myself about what information is useful *to me* ([178] 457 not in a capitalist sense 😉) and what I am likely to act on. 458 459 Teaching myself to expect less information 460 461 With [179]my self-imposed media diet — only allowing myself to look at my feed 462 reader on the desktop, and saving everything to my read later app — I’m 463 experiencing a lesser level of pace shock again, like I did when I quit 464 Twitter. I’ve been accustomed to a constant influx of information, and I get 465 antsy for novelty. Chris Bailey [180]points out that when you cut back 466 dramatically on the stimulus you take in, “what feels like restlessness is 467 really just your mind calming down.” I am retraining my brain about the pace of 468 information it can expect to receive. 469 470 Collecting less leaves me more mental space. So far, half the time I disrupt 471 the impulse to feed my brain something new, I read things I’ve already saved on 472 my read-later app, and the other half I start blogging. Both of these are a win 473 in my book 😄 474 475 I’m still in the transitional phase, not yet adapted, but I’ve carved out room 476 for myself to slow down by changing my environment. My hunger for the new will 477 probably never fully go away, but I think I can gradually pacify it into 478 subsidence. 479 480 481 482 Further reading: 483 484 [181]What is rotting, if not rest? by Haley Nahman 485 486 487 488 See also: 489 490 [182]Reclaiming intentionality in browsing and blogging 491 492 This is the (current) last article in a [183]series on the mindset of more. 493 494 • 495 • Previous: [184]The open web as gift economy (Part 4) 496 497 • Tags [185]agency, [186]balance, [187]bodies, [188]control, [189]FOMO, [190] 498 indie web, [191]IndieWeb, [192]letting go, [193]media diet, [194]open web, 499 [195]overwhelm, [196]pacing, [197]place, [198]Ray Bradbury, [199]slow 500 living, [200]social media, [201]spaces, [202]speed, [203]willpower 501 502 [b1231bba531dc25e30] 503 504 By Tracy Durnell 505 506 Writer and designer in the Seattle area. Reach me at [email protected] or 507 @[email protected]. 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Bronze is where I put all the blogs where I skip a lot 537 of the posts. It’s also where I put most newly added blogs, and ones I’m 538 considering removing. And silver is something in between. 539 540 For me this distinction works pretty well. I have different approaches and 541 expectations for each folder. 542 543 [212]Reply 544 [b1231bba531dc] [213]Tracy Durnell says: 545 [214]February 24, 2025 at 8:29 am 546 547 Ooh, the color tags are a great idea, thank you Erik! I have a “trying out” 548 tag, but it hasn’t been that useful because sometimes people only post every 549 few months so they are in there for a really long time, and then the folder has 550 so many people in it I can’t keep track of who’s who. 551 552 [215]Reply 553 [912c1c1f9a18b] Erik says: 554 [216]February 24, 2025 at 3:22 am 555 556 Also, thanks for this series of posts! It’s been really insightful seeing not 557 only your own stance on things, but also the many posts of other people that 558 you’ve linked to. 559 560 [217]Reply 561 [b1231bba531dc] [218]Tracy Durnell says: 562 [219]February 24, 2025 at 8:31 am 563 564 Thanks! I’m glad it’s been interesting! 565 566 [220]Reply 567 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 568 569 Leave a Reply [221]Cancel reply 570 571 Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * 572 573 [ ] 574 [ ] 575 [ ] 576 [ ] 577 [ ] 578 [ ] 579 [ ] 580 Comment * [ ] 581 582 Name * [223][ ] 583 584 Email * [224][ ] 585 586 Website [225][ ] 587 588 [226][ ] Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I 589 comment. 590 591 [227][Post Comment] 592 593 [ ] 594 [ ] 595 [ ] 596 [ ] 597 [ ] 598 [ ] 599 [ ] 600 Δ[ ] 601 602 To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should 603 contain a link to this post's permalink URL. 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