Today marks my first month clean from YouTube. It was the right choice, but that's not to say it was easy.
Let's talk about it.
Quitting
When I decided to do something about my addiction, I had a few choices:
Cut back the amount I was watching
Quit cold turkey
They both have …
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Hi, I'm a YouTube addict.
I know what you're thinking. That sounds like a joke. That you want a funny punchline to go with it. Me too.
First time I noticed
Truth is, though, I've had a problem for a while. I first noticed it back in 2011. Back then, I could feel it growing. I w…
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I just finished watching the movie called Stutz, a movie created by Jonah Hill about his psychiatrist. Through the movie, Stutz gives bite-sized practices drawn from Buddhism, psychiatry, and his own experiments. One of the themes is to accept that connection is the goal (connect…
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I've been thinking recently about being on the Autistic spectrum.
But first, some trigger warnings: topics include some talk of sex and gender, emotional pain, burnout.
I thought it was about sexuality, or gender, or...
I've wanted to talk about this for a long time. Before com…
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I've been thinking recently...
The good, the bad, and the average
Do you ever wonder about how we judge things? By this I mean, let's say we go to a restaurant with a friend. The meal is going well enough, then towards the middle of the meal we try our friend's dish. Wham! It's…
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