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Reading distressing news long past the point of use. The feed has no end by design, so a stopping point decided beforehand works far better than willpower ever does.

Doomscrolling: Reading distressing news long past the point of use. The feed has no end by design, so a stopping point decided beforehand works far better than willpower ever does. Think of it as Picking at a scab because it's there. Doomscrolling HOW TECH CULTURE WORKS Reading distressing news long past the point of use. The feed has no end by design, so astopping point decided beforehand works far better than willpower ever does. IT IS BUILT NOT TO FINISHNO BOTTOM TO REACHDECIDE THE END FIRST Picking at a scab because it's there. FOR EXAMPLE You look at the news for two minutes before bed and put the phone down forty minuteslater, feeling worse and knowing nothing new.
The drawing that proves the sentence above. It is the same card that is in the book.

Think of it as

picking at a scab because it's there.

For example

You look at the news for two minutes before bed and put the phone down forty minutes later, feeling worse and knowing nothing new.

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