I find that doing personal stuff during the 8 hour shift helps a lot with freeing the mind for evening activities. E.g. read a page from a book, research something for a small project. Bringing a personal laptop and hotspot helps to maintain appearances.

If you can doomscroll, you can play a puzzle. It’s about how you direct your attention.

Social media algorithms have given us all executive dysfunction by hijacking our dopamine systems. This was a deliberate design element, because the greedy bastards know they can milk more profit from us if they can get us addicted to their platforms. Hence we have things like infinite scroll, flashy colors and sounds, ragebait gets promoted to viral status while thought-provoking content gets shadowbanned.

If anyone thinks this was anything but deliberate on the part of major corporations, just read about the recent Meta lawsuits and hearings. This was deliberate on their part, and the rot suffuses the entire industry.

Social media giants should be nationalized as a public utility, given democratic/civic governance, ads should be removed entirely, their wealth invested in ESG endowments, and their maintenance funded by the interest. Oh and they should use a protocol like activity pub to federate amongst themselves.

Lastly, their regional headquarters in other countries must be split off and given to local governance.

Thanks for confirming something to someone who does a physical job 5 days a week. I can’t do shit after and can barely afford to eat and pay bills at the same time…

Feels bad seeing people have hobbies and they even have energy to care about doing them. And the ability to ignore the crushing hellscape humanity has made.

Working time fraud /s
But serious and more legal answer:
If you come home, don’t sit/lay down immediately. Do something in this timeframe and start small.

Your brain might say its tired, but its not.

Have you ever been in a boring conversation and couldn’t stop yawning, but then it shifted to something interesting and then very suddenly you’re wide awake?

Or you stumble upon a boring wikipedia article but soon realise you’re reading the whole thing and unable to put it down?

Interest! It exists, it’s out there waiting to catch you via the right hobby

I’ve definitely had that for periods of my life. New job or stress will do it, but also I’m sensitive so even just eating poorly and not exercising will throw everything into a wobble, where I can’t imagine doing anything proactive.

Doom scrolling is draining, not relaxing. At least over time.

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I have a friend who says words to the same!

Alan Watts is a treasure