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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[During today&#39;s lunch, I challenged myself to not use my phone until I was done eating. This used to be easy for me, but I&#39;ve since let old habits creep in. I counted at least 6 times, that my hand unconsciously drifted to my jeans pocket trying to take my phone out. I was successful though at stopping myself every time. I was able to finish lunch without needing to use my phone to distract or entertain myself.&#xA;&#xA;What&#39;s the point of this exercise? For me, the point is I got to rest my eyes. I work on computers all day. Spending lunch time looking at my phone will not rest my eyes. Looking at something far away in the distance does.&#xA;&#xA;A bonus I got from doing this, is that I had time to think. Without my phone in front of me while eating, I thought about starting an online journal once again.!--more--&#xA;&#xA;Why? &#xA;&#xA;I dunno. It&#39;s something that&#39;s been nagging at me for awhile now. Every once in awhile, I get this itch to journal online.&#xA;&#xA;Another thing nagging at me is this fear of losing the ability to creatively write entirely on my own, without the use of AI. I want to be able to write something at a moment&#39;s notice. I want to be able to write down something that I just thought about mere seconds ago -- and explain it in my own words, in my own sentences, whether they are grammatically correct or not. I want to be able to do all that and not use AI in the process.&#xA;&#xA;With the advent of AI tools, I feel that this is a skill that I will soon lose if I don&#39;t practice. And one way to practice is to blog or write journals online.&#xA;&#xA;And so that&#39;s how this post ended up here.&#xA;&#xA;#Journal #DigitalMinimalism #Writing&#xA;&#xA;!--emailsub--&#xA;&#xA;div id=&#34;post-signature&#34; style=&#39;text-align: center;&#39;&#xD;&#xA;hr /&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;mailto:microdispatch@outlook.com&#34;Reply via email.../a or leave me a comment below (no account or login needed).&#xD;&#xA;/div]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During today&#39;s lunch, I challenged myself to not use my phone until I was done eating. This used to be easy for me, but I&#39;ve since let old habits creep in. I counted at least 6 times, that my hand unconsciously drifted to my jeans pocket trying to take my phone out. I was successful though at stopping myself every time. I was able to finish lunch without needing to use my phone to distract or entertain myself.</p>

<p>What&#39;s the point of this exercise? For me, the point is I got to rest my eyes. I work on computers all day. Spending lunch time looking at my phone will not rest my eyes. Looking at something far away in the distance does.</p>

<p>A bonus I got from doing this, is that I had time to think. Without my phone in front of me while eating, I thought about starting an online journal once again.</p>

<p>Why?</p>

<p>I dunno. It&#39;s something that&#39;s been nagging at me for awhile now. Every once in awhile, I get this itch to journal online.</p>

<p>Another thing nagging at me is this fear of losing the ability to creatively write entirely on my own, without the use of AI. I want to be able to write something at a moment&#39;s notice. I want to be able to write down something that I just thought about mere seconds ago — and explain it in my own words, in my own sentences, whether they are grammatically correct or not. I want to be able to do all that and not use AI in the process.</p>

<p>With the advent of AI tools, I feel that this is a skill that I will soon lose if I don&#39;t practice. And one way to practice is to blog or write journals online.</p>

<p>And so that&#39;s how this post ended up here.</p>

<p><a href="https://micro-dispatch.writeas.com/tag:Journal" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Journal</span></a> <a href="https://micro-dispatch.writeas.com/tag:DigitalMinimalism" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">DigitalMinimalism</span></a> <a href="https://micro-dispatch.writeas.com/tag:Writing" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Writing</span></a></p>



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