Public Experiment #2: Limiting screen

I've tried this experiment many, many times with varying degrees of success. Could twitter accountability be the thing that changes my life? Let's see.

Experiment #2: Limit all types of screen

Admittedly, I introduce maybe a bit too much complexity by starting two experiments at the same time, but whatever, the first one's small.

Defining it: No screen means: no youtube, no twitter (except for posting updates about not going on twitter), no music, no TV, no instagram, no random internet blogs, etc. (stuff that clearly wastes time but isn't on this list counts too obviously).

Hypothesis: Okay I don't actually know if Twitter accountability is super effective. I could just decide *not* to post the times I fail on social media. But the motivations behind this are a bit different. It's not so much that I'm creating a consequence for this, but more like I'm cementing this as my identity.

I think that making blog posting an epic, long-term goal will be really interesting. Like at the end of a year, I'll have like 20 successful experiments and be a completely different person. That's kind of the dream! 

P(success): 40%

How to increase P(success): I should enable Cold Turkey again. I've also found it useful to talk to myself internally, like a coach. Imagining a little coach motivating a talented young NBA player to become a super star. 

November 1st, 2024:

As I'm writing this, I'm listening to music. SO LAST SONG. "How far I'll go" by Auli'l Cravalho. "See the light as where the sky meets the see, it calls meeee and no one knows, how far it goes"

Okay! The song is over. The experiment begins...

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