I feel like I've reached information oversaturation when I'm on the internet. I don't find myself interested in reading articles, discovering cool new gadgets or games, no longer feel the need to seek inspiration about the newest advancements in tech or science or design or education.
The only thing I've been able to do lately is find and listen to music and use some social media to send out thoughts or talk to friends.
I'm attributing this to my eyes seem to be getting worse and my insurance hasn't kicked in to get me to an eye doctor and I spend all day at work doing things on the internet because of the nature of my job, so it's not as interesting to me when I come home and want to relax.
But maybe there's something else going on. What're all your thoughts, reflections?
I find that my interests are changing in regard to content consumption. Sometimes I don't feel like reading articles anymore and switch to videos or like yourself, music. It's good to take a step back once in a while and evaluate what one is doing. Consuming for consumption's sake is a losing game, in my opinion.
Break into books man, that will get you addicted and salivating for more. You can get some kinda e-reader and it all synchs up. Some times the same format of reddit, couple hundred page article, google search, wikipedia rabbit-hole needs to change and the longer format of a book helps me stay sane.
Meditate. I meditate for 20 minutes a day. Going for 30 minutes next week. It takes some daily practice to start "getting it" in a sense, but when it clicks, it feels so great to just turn your mind off and relaaaaax. I use Calm for guided meditation. Start off from 2 to 5 minutes, and build up from there. It helps to keep your brain from overloading. I also use RSS feeds liberally. It makes it so I don't have to constantly refresh for new content on the websites I frequent. I have the RSS update every 4 hours with new stories. I can feel comfortable knowing I won't miss anything, so I can focus on other tasks, like my writing or my homework.
NSFWCorp. They're some of the only articles I read all the way through any more. not minding buying into the conflict tower, particularly since they froze out the permanent subscriptions and I'm now 5th floor from the top. Other than that, I gave up on the Internet YEARS AGO for anything but the most superficial information about anything. What's happening is described well in this book. TL;DR - the proliferation of non-news in the era of yellow journalism is repeating with the death of print media and adoption of internet media. While things are likely to settle into a new normal, the intervening years have been terrible for the proliferation of information (as opposed to rumor, slander and propaganda).
It's happened to me before in the past. My laptop broke a couple of months ago and after I got a new one without my specifications and personalizations and so on, my computer use dropped dramatically. I also started reading roughly 500 pages a week for various commitments at the same time, so that influenced things. I also don't think I've really used Steam in like a year. Sometimes it's just better to turn the fucker off after I get off work/class and read a book all evening with a glass of wine.
I find the exact opposite. That I'm devouring so much information, that it's all just really shallow and doesn't have much depth to it at all. And that I spend every waking moment refreshing my news sites for any new article. I'd really love to cut down on the time spent and use the time that I do spend on more intricate and deeper stuff. That's part of the reason I'm on hubski.