Chris Williamson
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like the digital world is more real than the real world is.
Ooh, I didn't think of it that way.
There are a lot of people that do spend more time on screens than they do asleep.
I like to balance that out.
I'd like to spend half as much time on my phone as I do asleep.
Well, that would be a good way to enforce it, right?
You log how much sleep time you've had and then that's your life.
Yeah, so I'm going to start sleeping 12 hours a day.
So I can spend six times a day.
It's quite a resource if you think about it, like a lack of an appreciation of your resource.
Because the resource of your time and your attention, it's very valuable.
And you can convert it into all sorts of amazing skills and skills.
information and you know knowledge and change your whole life or you can just stare at stupid shit all day long it's so compelling that dude it's been designed by the most profitable companies on the planet with the smartest behavioral scientists in history like it's an unfair fight it really is an unfair fight and that's why sort of
You could not do it though.
Oh, you need to lean in.
But it's like there is way more willpower you need to use in order to be able to not than like just whatever the course of natural human history is or natural human behavior.