{"id":13781,"date":"2025-05-02T12:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13781"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T19:49:14","slug":"f%e2%80%a0ck-digits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/02\/f%e2%80%a0ck-digits\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u2020ck Digits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/mental-health\/analog-life-50-ways-unplug-feel-human-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from InsideHook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human Again<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s life beyond the infinite scroll. We put together a toolkit of habits, routines and products to help you live more intentionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/tgarrity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TANNER GARRITY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Analog-Life-Hero1-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800\" alt=\"Three analog scenes: a woman playing backgammon, a man using a record player, and a person reading a book at a wooden table. Here's how to unplug and lead a more analog life.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Going analog isn\u2019t just about nostalgia. It\u2019s about resistance.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2006, a UX designer named Aza Raskin invented a concept called \u201cinfinite scroll.\u201d The feature provided an alternative to internet pagination \u2014 anytime users reached the end of a feed, timeline or results page, they could just flick the screen down for more. And like magic, more always arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raskin knew exactly what he\u2019d built: \u201cIf you don\u2019t give your brain time to catch up with your impulses, you just keep scrolling,\u201d he explained&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-44640959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in a BBC interview<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s as if [you\u2019re] taking behavioral cocaine\u2026sprinkling it all over your interface. That\u2019s the thing that keeps you coming back and back and back.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did&nbsp;<em>we<\/em>&nbsp;know what we were walking into? Say you took a time machine back to the early 2010s. The iPad, the first commercially profitable tablet, had just arrived. Smartphones were adding a litany of features, steadily transforming from a situation-specific tool into an all-day ecosystem. Most of us felt lucky to have these things \u2014 and the original versions certainly weren\u2019t cheap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/mental-health\/analog-life-50-ways-unplug-feel-human-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at InsideHook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from InsideHook The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human Again There\u2019s life beyond the infinite scroll. We put together a toolkit of habits, routines and products to help you live more intentionally. BY\u00a0TANNER GARRITY In 2006, a UX designer named Aza Raskin invented a concept called \u201cinfinite scroll.\u201d The feature provided an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}