We’re all walking around with phones, and sitting at home with desktop computers, tablets, etc. But how much time do you spend on your digital devices each day? Do you feel it’s too much, too little, or just the right amount of time?
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I work from home, so a lot of the time I'm doing work. 😑
However, I still spend a lot of time looking at news, and just learning stuff. The internet is like an adventure, lots of strange and interesting things to learn about. Is most of it useless, yes, but some of it has helped me with work, and at other times in my life.
And if course I'm home, so I'm helping my kids with school, and doing other stuff all day, so it balances out.
I spend zero hours interacting with skinner box "apps", substack being the closest thing to that (and I somewhat resent it for slowly evolving toward skinner mechanics). Or vidya, but I mostly do that with the kid. My phone spends all its time silenced and out of my sight unless I need to make a phone call, send a text, or something simple like that.
But I do I spend all day writing code and attending online meetings, then I often watch movies or play games with my wife and kid on them, and sometimes I work on pet software projects, and I do a lot of reading either on my laptop or ereader.
I would like to do less of this but present situation forbids it. Once I move back out to the country I hope more of family time will be spent out in the garden, or hiking/camping, which I prefer for leisure time, and less staring at a screen. And eventually scaling back work to less-than-full time. But all we have access to where I am right now is urban/suburban wasteland, and they've let the gutter goblins run amok here so going out in it is unpleasant.
I work from home, so a lot of the time I'm doing work. 😑
However, I still spend a lot of time looking at news, and just learning stuff. The internet is like an adventure, lots of strange and interesting things to learn about. Is most of it useless, yes, but some of it has helped me with work, and at other times in my life.
And if course I'm home, so I'm helping my kids with school, and doing other stuff all day, so it balances out.
It depends on whether I’m writing something to be posted later, and I keep
In touch with friends in UK, US, Canada through WhatsApp.
But I’ve got my cats to look after/play with, my household chores, and soon hopefully the garden, so lots of non-digital things as well.
Four hours, actually… used to be more than ten! 😵
I spend zero hours interacting with skinner box "apps", substack being the closest thing to that (and I somewhat resent it for slowly evolving toward skinner mechanics). Or vidya, but I mostly do that with the kid. My phone spends all its time silenced and out of my sight unless I need to make a phone call, send a text, or something simple like that.
But I do I spend all day writing code and attending online meetings, then I often watch movies or play games with my wife and kid on them, and sometimes I work on pet software projects, and I do a lot of reading either on my laptop or ereader.
I would like to do less of this but present situation forbids it. Once I move back out to the country I hope more of family time will be spent out in the garden, or hiking/camping, which I prefer for leisure time, and less staring at a screen. And eventually scaling back work to less-than-full time. But all we have access to where I am right now is urban/suburban wasteland, and they've let the gutter goblins run amok here so going out in it is unpleasant.
Too much time. But when I walk away from my desktop computer I am free again. I own no smartphone. Don't need one.
Well, I work on the computer so if I include that time its probably 10-12 hours.