Unhook lets you use YouTube without recommendations. Absolute godsend for people like me who get distracted easily and are prone to scrolling. I couldn't find an equivalent for my phone, so I just deleted YouTube from it entirely. I still partake in the ritual of eating with YouTube, but I do it on my laptop like the old days.
Mine has been off for years now and I'm realizing how much it's cut down my consumption of "just another video, just another video".
I now look up exactly what I need, and see nothing more.
I now practice mindfulness.
After watching the new Eddy Burback video I have been inspired to delete every evil application from my phone so I can actually live my life. I have had Instagram for almost nine years now, so it felt very powerful to delete it <3
It's just like John Swartzwelder said:
"Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible […] Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done."
