Living on 24 hours a day
I&#x27;ve recently been working on breaking my bad habit of getting home from work each day, taking out my phone, and then looking up 4 hours later to realize all my free time for the night has been consumed by The Algorithm. It&#x27;s been pretty rough going so far. I find it particularly soul-crushing because I do have things that I consciously <i>want</i> to do during that time, like write music and film short films, but those things take effort and commitment, so instead I spend night after night doomscrolling Twitter&#x2F;Reddit&#x2F;YouTube&#x2F;HN.<p>I am hopeful, though, that I can break out of it. Last night, I even put together a little song. Sure, I only spent an hour on it, but that was an hour that I didn&#x27;t spend on the Internet! I&#x27;m looking forward to the day I can say with certainty that I live on 24 hours a day.