Reducing the noise

Earlier today, I took some actions to reduce the noise in my life.

• I disabled notifications on my phone for Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, XMPP, and everything else that was not important.
• I disabled constant notifications for XMPP on my desktop. If I am set to away, I see little to nothing.
• I removed more than 50% of my RSS feeds from Thunderbird, almost all of them from Tumblr.
• I reduced the podcasts I pull down.
• I have reduced how much I use social media and cloud services, especially Twitter.

 

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