“What’s a flip phone?” – My 8 year old sister
Interchange may have been the most productive week of my life. True to my word I did my research and have found a few tricks that have helped me focus on my work. I finished both documentations and walkthrough videos this week ith time to spare.
First of all, a friend of mine suggested I may have adhd which could suggest why I lose track of time and struggle to focus. Now I do not have the resources to get an official diagnosis or anything, but I did try something called body doubling (https://www.simplypsychology.org/adhd-body-doubling.html) and it works SO WELL. All I had to do was go sit with my brother and I could just type without getting distracted once it was awesome.
One of the projects I researched for the first half of my sustainability documentation(that I didn’t end up using) was dumb phones. They’re just any phone that doesn’t have smart phone capabilities, like social media apps, and are mostly marketed towards the elderly. But I, a sucker for anything electronically retro, became OBSESSED with them.
I definitely use too much social media, and as its easier to open Twitter than Microsoft Word my productivity does suffer a bit. But dumb phones have solved that, specifically the modern flip phone variant. I uninstalled all social apps from my iPhone to see if I could handle using a dumb phone, and I have gotten so much work done just by not scrolling online.
Also learned that I can be bribed, “get all your work done and you can research which flip phone to buy” worked WONDERS. I can happily tell you that I’ll be buying a Kyocera KYF42 in blue.
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