This is how I live, and I cannot comprehend how people live otherwise.
I have no work email or slack on my phone. The only notifications that appear on my lock screen are texts, calls, and when there’s a new crossword available. Seeing other people’s phones buzz every time they get an email, or every time their news apps have a new article… seems utterly insane to me. Why would you give every one of those the opportunity to demand your attention, without warning, at any time? How do you live like that?
News apps are baffling, I've worked in the business and couldn't comprehend why colleagues needed notifications for news and socials.
Can't see how it's possible to be effective whilst so reactive in a professional context. For a person who's job doesn't involve keeping tabs on the world it makes even less sense. Damaging and stressful.
I think the 24-hour news cycle in general has gotten too obsessed with "fast" and "breaking" over "news worthy" and "attention worthy". I've realized as much as anything that what I want is slow news and that the old models were possibly best: daily morning paper, maybe an afternoon rag. That's it. Real news doesn't seem to me to actually move faster than that, we've just sort of let "entertainment" and "anxiety" and "engagement clickbait" substitute for "news worthy" for long enough that people think they need the constant attention to it.
I have no work email or slack on my phone. The only notifications that appear on my lock screen are texts, calls, and when there’s a new crossword available. Seeing other people’s phones buzz every time they get an email, or every time their news apps have a new article… seems utterly insane to me. Why would you give every one of those the opportunity to demand your attention, without warning, at any time? How do you live like that?