Ryan Leak

Consistent notifications.

algorithms that know you better than you know you and send you recommendations.

If your back starts hurting tomorrow morning, I don't know how, I don't know why, but the curvature of your vertebrae somehow sends a signal to your phone that all of a sudden you're going to start getting ads for physical therapists and chiropractors and gadgets that somehow make your back straight.

It's insane.

It is engineered for our attention.

So sometimes you don't need to delete it forever.

I think you just need to create friction.

Another shift for me, and this was big in just having a healthy relationship with social media.

I stopped following people who made me consistently angry, upset, or insecure.

Like a big shift for me was curating who I followed.

And here's the humbling part.

The people that were making me angry, upset, or insecure were not the problem.

I was the problem.

I don't know if you know this.

You actually get to choose the people that you follow.

It's called a news feed.

And so this is something that is feeding your mind.

And if you're constantly following people who make you angry, upset, or insecure, you are literally feeding your mind junk food.

And so I just started asking myself simple questions.

Does this account inspire me?