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I’ve found a great method that works well to stop scrolling and stop going from video to video or article to article based on any algorithm. The idea is simple, instead of scrolling and consuming, build a personal curated list for a short period of time where only those curated links are then able to be consumed.

Breaking up scrolling into two phases of an initial “scout” phase to find links and save them with a defined cut off period or quantity. With a secondary phase of going back to that curated list and consuming or viewing with more purposeful intention, allows you to have more structure where the algorithms have less control and you still get your dopamine hits in both phases.

Taking a third step to then journal or reflect on each link in your content bank then lets you consider what value that had, and the beauty of this is, if you only go on a “scout” once all media is reviewed and reflected, you start to realise the time was either spent positively or was wasted with each link and you become more critical when going on a “scout” mission for the week ahead.

This curated list can be kept analog or with digital note taking / second brain solutions and works either way. Thumbnail example was ripped from a video on the subject: https://youtu.be/-OjikK5APSk

Something you all might be interested in

Noddy’s Toyland Adventures s01e08

Charlie Chalk s01e02

Oakie Doke s01e22

Foreman Sam s01e07

Fireman Sam s01e07

Fireman Sam s01e07

The Fediverse is thankfully less US centric than most of the web but I find many non-English communities that look interesting but are obviously out of reach due to a language barrier. I could use a web client and browser extension but a native app always feels better, are there any that auto translate text? Is anyone interested in this feature request?

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Does anyone actually find video games boring and a waste of time? And by extension gamification of anything is not a motivating drive? Every ADHD advice usually centres around some form of gamified strategy but to me this is flawed. How do you manage dopamine without it being gamified?

It’s very rare that I can find myself engaging with any video games these days and it’s usually down to a few reasons:

• The gameplay is something that I recognise the mechanics of and feel like I’m playing something I’ve already played and once I recognise it there’s little reason to continue. Completion or challenge of the game is not a motivating factor to stick with it.

• I have so many things that I need to be doing that I can’t even do and anything not on the list and video gaming is a waste of that time that could be going to literally anything else.

• Narratives in games are… not that interesting. I usually find the balance between interactivity and story always off and any gameplay is either boring or the narrative is boring so one is always cancelling the other out, so “engaging” with a story is cumbersome and at that point I may as well watch a passive form of media.

• Online multiplayer is rarely fun as I have little time to invest in being any good at a game to the level I can enjoy it. Usually the enjoyment comes from making other people’s lives miserable by beating them.

Oh and forget about achievements, they are just a bunch of todo items that I can’t process at all as they are either micro indicators of progress in the game and useless eg. You do literally nothing aside from play the game as intended and you get some achievement. Or it’s some ridiculous set of tasks that I get task paralysis by which in the end there’s zero reward for accomplishing so why bother.