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Running the Oakland half-marathon
I started running sporadically starting around 2015 and more regularly in 2020 after the pandemic started. I refuse to believe that anyone actually enjoys running when they first start running, but over time, like many others before me, I started to find comfort in the ritual of running. As a naturally anxious person, I found…
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The effects of my 30 day digital detox
And why you might want to try it too. In my first post, Digital essentialism: Or why this blog even exists, I hinted at some of the immediate effects I noticed after I started my 30 day digital/dopamine detox, where I deleted the Twitter and Instagram apps from my phone. If you’re digital-sober-curious, I hope…
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Digital essentialism
Or why this blog even exists. At the end of 2020, inspired by the book Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, I decided to go on a 30 day social media detox where I uninstalled both Twitter and Instagram — and I never fully came back from that. (TikTok was never in the picture for me.)…