I quit social media for 30 days and slept better for a WHOLE YEAR
In June 2021 I quit social media for 30 days…and it helped me sleep better for a whole year.
When I released my album “Exotic Monsters” in May 2021 I was burned out. Musicians can end up spending a lot of time online promoting their work, and I needed a rest.
Social media has been a really great space for me to meet music fans and make all sorts of interesting connections since I started blogging in 2004 and tweeting in 2007, but in recent years it feels like it’s all got a bit too much. Do you agree?
The tactics of the attention engineers employed by those big companies to keep us stuck to our phones seem to have got more aggressive over time, and I’ve personally felt embarrassment, guilt and shame about my sometime phone addiction.
I decided to do something about it, and I’d love to hear what you think of this video.
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