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> Compare the feeling of doomscrolling to kneading dough, playing an instrument, sketching

The whole article felt disconnected from reality to me, and this might be the core part that underlies it all.

The author seems to be hostile enough to smartphones that they don't really see much more physical using them has got. In particular in the last decade or so we got rid of so much of frequent polling to see if something needs attention or not, and notification management has become leaps and bounds better, at least on android.

But the author's focus seems to be more on social media ?

And they also idealize what people were doing before smartphones.

People scrolling Twitter rage thread today would probably not have been sketching birds in their backyard. Some perhaps, most surely not. TV was already widely popular for a reason.