Nearly every app in existence exists to profit off of you in some why. By nature it is hard for them to ever make your well being their aim. This is a reason I've stopped to working for direct to consumer companies, in the end you always end up scheming with your PM to figure out a way to screw over your users while humming a tune about how much you love your customers. Because of the raw numbers of customers, it almost never makes sense to do what is really right for them while doing what's also right for your bottom line.
In the last few months I have aggressively reduced my time online and replaced it with reading books of all sorts.
Part of this was a deliberate attempt to ween myself off an increasingly toxic online world. But the other part was that for learning technical topics the web has become a heaping pile of garbage. It used to be you could find some great insights on even advanced subjects, but now searching a topic make it more likely for me to find incorrect insights.
So my advice is: If there's a topic you like chatting about online, order some books on that subject. If you want to relax, start reading more fiction. And aggressively start building out a library of technical/text books (used is pretty cheap), so that you can start browsing your own "web" of useful content instead of content marketing created trash.
You can read on the toilet, that's what people used to do back in the 90s and before!
>You can read on the toilet, that's what people used to do back in the 90s and before!
That is a bad idea, according to my doctor and my own experience. Ideally for the long term health of your sphincter, you should try to get on, take your dump, and get off the toilet in just a few minutes total. I used to keep a stack of magazines next to my toilet but gave that up years ago and am glad I did.
In the last few months I have aggressively reduced my time online and replaced it with reading books of all sorts.
Part of this was a deliberate attempt to ween myself off an increasingly toxic online world. But the other part was that for learning technical topics the web has become a heaping pile of garbage. It used to be you could find some great insights on even advanced subjects, but now searching a topic make it more likely for me to find incorrect insights.
So my advice is: If there's a topic you like chatting about online, order some books on that subject. If you want to relax, start reading more fiction. And aggressively start building out a library of technical/text books (used is pretty cheap), so that you can start browsing your own "web" of useful content instead of content marketing created trash.
You can read on the toilet, that's what people used to do back in the 90s and before!