[droctothorpe]

I tech fast for 25 hours a week. No computer, no cell phone, no television, etc. It's amazing how much this sustains my motivation and enthusiasm. You can "switch" right now, at least 1/7th of the time. Not exactly what you're asking for but immediately actionable.

[arsome]

Is that a straight period of a day or so or do you do 3.5 hrs/day? How does this work?

[nmoon]

We call that Shabbat

[swyx]

what do you do when you tech fast? read books?

[leroy-is-here]

Everything that isn’t tech is a very, very large set. What I assume the OP is really saying here is a “screen fast”. Reading is nearly the same activity for our text-scrolling-addicted brains. I recommend _anything_ outside even if it’s just sitting and staring. Eventually you’ll fill that time as long as you have discipline for no-tech.

[danjoredd]

Not OP but theres tons of stuff. Go to the gym, fish, go to the shooting range, visit a museum, find a super long nature trail and go as far as you can, etc. Even in small nowhere-towns there are tons of things to do when you let your imagination run wild. Finding stuff to do without computers is a skill we have as kids, but lose once we gain our careers.

[bartislartfast]

I've been thinking about doing this! Also have considered ditching my phone, or downgrading to a dumb one. Yesterday for world book day I sat and read a book for the evening and it was wonderful, but I kept putting the book down to check things I'd just read on wikipedia or see if I had any emails. It was an eye opener to how much I do that on a normal day

[candiddevmike]

Was this comment made outside your fasting window?

Alternatively, I set a 20 min daily timer for chrome on my phone, seems to help a lot.

[rr888]

Is that like one day on a weekend? I actually thought that was normal (maybe the phone)