Nice community!
I’ve found a great method that works well to stop scrolling and stop going from video to video or article to article based on any algorithm. The idea is simple, instead of scrolling and consuming, build a personal curated list for a short period of time where only those curated links are then able to be consumed.
Breaking up scrolling into two phases of an initial “scout” phase to find links and save them with a defined cut off period or quantity. With a secondary phase of going back to that curated list and consuming or viewing with more purposeful intention, allows you to have more structure where the algorithms have less control and you still get your dopamine hits in both phases.
Taking a third step to then journal or reflect on each link in your content bank then lets you consider what value that had, and the beauty of this is, if you only go on a “scout” once all media is reviewed and reflected, you start to realise the time was either spent positively or was wasted with each link and you become more critical when going on a “scout” mission for the week ahead.
This curated list can be kept analog or with digital note taking / second brain solutions and works either way. Thumbnail example was ripped from a video on the subject: https://youtu.be/-OjikK5APSk
