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Choosing my pace by shaping my thinking spaces (Part 5)
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• Post author By [154]Tracy Durnell
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• Post date [155]February 23, 2025
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• [156]5 Comments on Choosing my pace by shaping my thinking spaces (Part 5)
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This is part five of a series on tackling wants, managing my media diet, and
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finding enough. Each post stands alone, so you don’t have to read them all.
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Read the introduction on “[157]the mindset of more.”
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Too much info, too fast
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Information has a near-physicality to it — we feel the emotional force of
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content. Although the same volume of information is coming into my feed reader
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as always, the intensity of the content of late has made it feel like too much.
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The perceived speed of my intellectual spaces has increased because so much of
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the information I’m exposed to is emotionally distressing. And going too fast
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for too long makes me tired — mentally and physically. As someone prone to
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anxiety, I need to be conscious of how my body internalizes what I’m reading.
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We feel the emotional intensity of what we read from a feed as speed because it
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seems that a large number of consequential things have happened to us in a
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short span of time. Caitlin Dewey [158]frames it as being deluged:
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[W]hen it comes to political news… I sometimes feel like I’m standing at
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the base of some fucked-up virtual waterfall, with thousands of gallons of
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dense, icy water pounding down ceaselessly on my head.
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Our bodies translate our [159]online emotional experiences into physical
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realities; our bodies react to what happens in virtual spaces the same way they
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react in physical spaces, releasing stress hormones and raising our heart rate
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and blood pressure although we’re sitting still. Chronic stress is terrible for
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our health. But we wouldn’t spend so much time online if it was only bad – we
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also receive mental rewards from gathering information.
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I don’t think withdrawing from information altogether is the answer, but I
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wonder whether we can reclaim some agency by changing the places and ways we’re
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exposed to information — by controlling our perceived intellectual pace.
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Our intellectual pace is influenced by:
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• the total amount of information we’re exposed to,
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• how much of it we actually consume,
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• the information’s emotional intensity,
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• the place we’re consuming it, and
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• whether we feel we can do anything about it.
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Who controls our thinking spaces, controls our pace
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The physical and conceptual spaces where we learn and think comprise our
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intellectual environment: the places we read, listen or watch; and the places
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where we process what we’ve taken in, whether by talking about it or writing
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about it.
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Time is experienced relativistically; some hours feel faster to us than others.
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That sensation of where did the time go?! can happen whenever we’re immersed,
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whether that’s in flow state, where we are working at our peak ability, or in
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social media, where we are fully absorbed in the thoughts of others. These
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types of fast-felt experiences sit at opposite ends of a spectrum of agency.
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When we lack control in our intellectual environments, our mindspaces are not
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our own. Matt Haig argues in Notes on a Nervous Planet, “The trouble is that if
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we are plugged in to a vast nervous system, our happiness—and misery—is more
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collective than ever. The group’s emotions become our own.”
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Our thoughts become dominated by others’ concerns and priorities if we cannot
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regulate the pace at which we receive them — if we never have time to process
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them. And given our finite schedules, there’s often an inverse relationship
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between the time we spend consuming and the time we spend thinking about it.
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Dewey [160]summarizes the impact of the explosion of news sources and the
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never-ending sensationalized feed:
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“Together, these forces have both accelerated and flattened the news:
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Everything happens all at once, and everything is a crisis.”
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Controlling the pace of media becomes a tool of power, with political
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ramifications. If we’re busy watching, we’re not acting. If we’re stuck
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listening, we’re not thinking. If we’re not sure what’s happening, we’ll wait
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to gather more information. If we’re constantly playing catch up, we’re always
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in reactive mode, never proactive.
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Right now, the Trump administration is taking advantage of its control of our
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attentional spaces to raise our collective mental pace into overdrive. As Ezra
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Klein [161]puts it, “The flood is a point. The overwhelm is a point. The
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message wasn’t in any one executive order or announcement. It was in the
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cumulative effect of all of them.” The hemorrhage of horror is intended to
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paralyze us by overloading us with information that we don’t have time to
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process.
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But as Craig Mod [162]challenges,
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“The feed, the doomscroll, the hyperventilation, is the heartbeat of
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political and social death. It is not life. It is a false heartbeat.”
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Oliver Burkeman [163]encourages us to “make sure your psychological centre of
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gravity is in your real and immediate world – the world of your family and
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friends and neighborhood, your work and your creative projects, as opposed to
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the world of presidencies and governments, social forces and global
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emergencies.” It is too easy, Burkeman notes, to live “inside the news” rather
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than our physical reality. Our tools for accessing our thinking spaces — now
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almost all digital — encourage it.
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The web feels infinite
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Nicholas Carr [164]notices how, online and especially on our phones, our
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attention transfers from what we’re consuming to how we’re consuming it: “[W]
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hat engages us more and more is not the content but the mechanism. […] Whatever
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lies on the other side of the interface seems less and less consequential. The
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interface is the thing. The interface is the content.” The meta subsumes the
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factual. The experience overshadows the information. The interface — and its
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speed — are all-consuming.
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We used to use specialized media, Carr points out — playing a song used a
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different tool than reading the news — but generalist computers have
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consolidated the vast majority of our intellectual environment into digital
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devices. We both play music and read the news on our computer, whether that’s a
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phone or a desktop PC. A key difference for our experience is that we lost
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physical transitions between media.
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Friction reduces speed. Analog media naturally provided friction — you had to
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get up to flip the record, you had to go outside to grab the newspaper — while
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digital media aims to remove friction from all consumption. The digital format
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removed the constraints of physicality; this brought us endless scroll, which
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removed a natural cue to transition activities and deprives of the
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psychological satisfaction of [165]ever completing anything. Or, as Craig Mod
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puts it, [166]edges. Edgeless is endless. Without waypoints, it’s easy to spend
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longer than we realize consuming information and moving from one type of
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content to another. Without transitions, we exist in an unbroken now that
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matches the pace of our intellectual space, whether fast or slow.
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Our fastest space raises our baseline pace
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Spending time in a faster-paced space raises our threshold for stimulus as we
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adapt to its speed. I have found that when I dip back from the slow stream into
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the fast feed, even with the intention of keeping up with only one or two
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people, the speed can suck me in again.
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I tried lurking on Bluesky, but once enough people showed up, it had the same
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delicious taste for me as old Twitter… so I logged out in December and haven’t
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let myself log back in. A fast-paced environment builds a pattern of
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consumption and a habit of speed. For me, it is safer to stay out of the swift
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water altogether.
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The mind must convince the body to change
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In a culture of information superabundance, we need above all else the
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discipline to say “no” or to set limits upon our engagement with the vast
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proliferation of digital media.
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—[167]L.M. Sacasas
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To lower my pace, I want to take in less information in total. But it’s not as
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simple as deciding to take in less information; living that decision is the
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hard part. A change like this is not just intellectual, but embodied, too.
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When I was trying to escape Twitter’s staccato mode of thinking, I found my
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muscle memory challenged my mental discipline. I could fully intend not to look
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at Twitter, but in moments of transition, the habitual movement of my fingers
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on the keyboard carried me back again and again, forcing me to exercise [168]my
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will continuously. My subconscious urge to fill any gap with stimulus was
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powerful. Ultimately, I had to [169]block the site with my Hosts file (and
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eventually quit my job where I had to use Twitter 😉). My body resisted my
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conscious desire to stop reading Twitter, and I had to change my environment to
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force myself to let it go.
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I’m reminded of the Ray Bradbury story [170]Frost and Fire (spoilers for an
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eighty year old novella 😉), where people’s lives last mere days — then the main
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characters decide to brave the perilous journey to the spaceship their
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ancestors left behind. When they enter, their bodies literally slow down, and
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the hero believes himself to be dying:
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“The ship he had come to for salvation was now slowing his pulse, darkening
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his brain, poisoning him. With a starved, faint kind of expiring terror, he
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realized that he was dying.
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[…]
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He had a dim sense of time passing, of thinking, struggling, to make his
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heart go quick, quick…. to make his eyes focus. But the fluid in his body
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lagged quietly through his settling veins and he heard his pulse thud,
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pause, thud, pause and thud again with lulling intermissions.
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[…]
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Is this death? This slowing of blood, of my heart, this cooling of my body,
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this drowsy thinking of thoughts?”
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When he finally recovers from the shock, when he acclimates to the new
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slowness, he realizes the ship has saved him: the slower pace means his life
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will not end in eight days. The dramatic change in pace felt like dying, so he
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fought it, but now that his body is no longer racing, his life is comparably
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infinite. Everyone who stayed behind has grown old in the days he took to
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adapt.
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I think any sudden change in the pace of our intellectual environment can spark
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this same kind of physical shock. At the same time, when we are immersed in the
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feed, it can be hard to notice that our pace is wearing us out and recognize
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that we have the power to change it.
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We can change our mental — and physical — pace by changing the places where we
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spend time: choosing new spaces and shaping the ones we choose. We cannot force
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ourselves to change, but we can create environments for ourselves that
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encourage and support what we want, and discourage what we don’t want, applying
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friction with intention.
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Lowering the pace of my online intellectual spaces
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On the open web, we can choose our own pace of information because we — not
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corporations — are in control of our environment.
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Taking in information across a broad spread of paces
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For finding new things to read online, I mainly turn to my feed reader. I also:
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• use the library catalog and Goodreads as [171]browsing-thinking tools,
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• get temperature readings from microbloggers on the Fediverse via
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micro.blog,
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• explore outwards through the open web from articles and personal websites,
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• seek answers from DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, and Reddit,
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• absorb random facts from YouTubers, and
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• probe more widely with Search My Site and Marginalia Search.
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Some of these are fast spaces, some slow; many let me set my own pace. I’ve
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corralled most of my media exposure into my feed reader, which helps because I
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must choose to open it, and have removed access from my phone. But while I
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generally feel [172]RSS is a healthy way to follow writers, it’s still [173]a
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feed. And feeds, whether self-curated or assembled by a corporate algorithm,
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are designed to be an efficient information delivery mechanism. Their function
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is to provide easy, immediate* access to new information.
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*(James built [174]a slow feed reader!)
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Choosing quieter spaces
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One of the dials I think about for media exposure is how much noise I will
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tolerate to find signal; accepting more noise means I can find signal from a
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broader band. The massive spectrum of information and event-dense experience of
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social media creates a noisy intellectual environment. On RSS, I control how
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loud my space is, how much chatter I allow in. This intellectual loudness
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translates into perceived speed.
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To draw on a wide pool of information and sources, I have for years permitted
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my feed reader to be a noisy — thus relatively fast — space. I’ve erred on the
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side of subscribing, adding blogs and newsletters to my feed reader with
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abandon. The quantity and constant influx of information can impose an
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artificial pressure to consume it; the fact that it exists implies we ought to
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read it. Granting myself a smaller, tighter pool of reading material to choose
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from could make exercising mental discipline easier.
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I am starting to unsubscribe from a few feeds, though I am reluctant to remove
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too many 😉 I am thinking of creating a second RSS feed for myself on a
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different service, subscribing only to my favorite 20-30 feeds; I can check
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that during the week, and on weekends, when I have a bit more capacity, can
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take a peek at my full feed to see if there’s anything I missed. (A lot of
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times, news seems to play itself out over the span of a week.)
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Using the tools my spaces offer
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I access my online intellectual spaces in my feed reader, read-later app, and
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internet browser on my phone and desktop computer. The apps have different
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levels of control, as do the devices. My phone opens me up to a world of
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distractions with apps as well as access to the open web; my process of reading
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only from my read-later app on the phone creates a slower environment even on a
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device biased towards speed.
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The overall stimulus we experience in a space influences how fast it feels. Ads
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increase visual noise, so [175]I block them on desktop and use DuckDuckGo
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browser on mobile, which blocks ads way better than Firefox browser. Color adds
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visual stimulation, so I set up the accessibility shortcut on my phone to
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toggle me into greyscale mode; if I’m feeling overwhelmed, I can hit that to
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instantly drop my pace.
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My current process of [176]selecting and reading at different times, using
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different tools, takes advantage of my read later app’s slow environment.
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Instapaper doesn’t recommend me a bunch of junk like Pocket did; it’s just my
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own stuff. (One of the many reasons I quit Pocket.) Using tags — including a ⭐
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tag to mark the things I most want to read — and archiving aggressively
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condenses the amount of information I’m exposed to when I open the app even
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more.
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I use [177]micro.blog as my most social online space, which I generally look at
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once or twice a day for ten minutes (and could get away with even less 😉) I
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picked micro.blog as my connection to the Fediverse because it doesn’t show
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follower counts or allow reposts (or quote posts, though I personally have
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found these useful). It’s a pretty small community, and most people are not
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heavy posters. Between the tooling and the number of users, this means the
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volume of posts is much lower than Bluesky and corporate silos.
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The feed offers a variety of controls for what I see; I recently muted a few
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terms related to the corporate silos and generative AI because these topics
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aren’t really beneficial for me to think about. I also appreciate that it
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doesn’t have endless scroll, and while you can proceed through a few pages, you
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cannot go backwards forever in time. The feed has an end.
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Creating endings
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The web may feel infinite, but we can create spaces within it that feel finite.
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New material constantly flows into my feed reader. Every day, there are 20-50
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new posts I could consider reading. In the past several weeks, I’ve started
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“marking all as read” in my feed reader after I open anything that looks
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interesting, whereas in the past I’d leave it all visible and peruse it a
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second or third time.
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I’m also working on leaving fewer tabs open in my phone browser. (I aim for
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just one at the end of the day — my weeknotes draft post for easy access
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throughout the week — but sometimes that don’t happen 😉) This is a practice in
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