#no surf

If I ever get the money for a decent laptop, I will probably "downgrade" to a basic flip phone and start carrying a portable CD player with headphones, print copies of the bus routes, and library books with me everywhere I go. So that I can limit my time spent on the internet and social media because I will only have access to it from the laptop at home. I'll read on the bus and trade mix CDs with my sister.

"In the past few decades we’ve learned to recognise the many hazards of poor nutrition: insulin resistance, obesity, susceptibility to inflammation and fatigue. All of these factors can contribute to an early death. We’ve altered our diets and learned to resist the siren call of sugar and other simple carbohydrates. We’ve now reached a similar point with the news; we think about it today much as we thought about sugar and fast food twenty years ago. News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easily digestible and extremely damaging. The media is feeding us titbits that taste palatable but do nothing to satisfy our hunger for knowledge. Unlike books and well-researched long-form articles, the news cannot satiate us. We can gobble down as many articles as we like, but we will never be doing more than gorging on sweets. As with sugar, alcohol, fast food and smoking, the side effects only become apparent later." - Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading The News