[nicbou]

“Go touch grass” is used derisively, but it’s something I tell myself more and more. We overvalue the online world and all its drama. Go outside, meet people, make your own organic, locally grown drama.

These days I schedule my work around the weather. Few things bring me as much happiness as a day in the sun. I know it has been a good day when I have not touched my laptop once.

[wcedmisten]

I recently made a small webapp to make me "touch grass". The idea behind it is that you enter some activities (or keep the random defaults), and when you are bored or doom scrolling, it call tell you what to do.

It's a bit silly, and still very bare bones, but I just like the phrase "touch grass", and this is my effort to reclaim it from the depths of derisiveness.

https://makemetouchgrass.com

[qolop]

You're being ironic right?

[hutzlibu]

"Go touch grass" barefeet, if you want even more body sensations ...

And actually you can combine both. Sitting with your laptop on the grass (in the shade), to get the outside feel, but still work done.

[newswasboring]

As with many things in life, "go touch grass" isn't actually about touching grass.

[JadeNB]

> As with many things in life, "go touch grass" isn't actually about touching grass.

As with many things in life, though "go touch grass" isn't actually about touching grass, touching grass really is a good thing. (Well, except that it makes me itch all over the area of contact. Still worth it.)

[hutzlibu]

For me it is complementary. While I consciously touch grass, I ground what I am doing with reality. Is the problem I am stuck coding on really that important? Is there a simpler solution, or is something else more important right now?

At least, that's what works for me, sometimes metaphors are to be also taken literal.