Paul Reyes 🥉

Kept spiraling about screen time until I tried one simple rule: no feeds on the first screen. I made a School Focus that turns on at 8 and only allows calendar, notes, email, and family. Then I set a 20 minute limit on the worst app and gave the passcode to my partner and which weirdly felt freeing. Bonus trick that worked shockingly well is triple-click grayscale at night, it makes doomscrolling feel boring. Not perfect, but the urge dropped fast and I actually finish homework on time now.

Bundling is cable in cosplay. They sell you fewer clicks while sneaking in channels you do not need and a price hike two months later. The math works if your must-watch list all lives in that bundle & which it rarely does. Do the lazy person's plan instead: keep one service, set a reminder, rotate next month. Free trials are the new coupons, and binging is the new appointment TV.

We have two rescues and one vacuums food. I pre weigh the entire day into a small container and pour that into the hopper in the morning. The schedule is eight events and the slow feed option is always on. If the camera shows frantic gulping, I add another event and shave a few grams off each one and total never changes, only the spacing. For jams I switched to a uniform small kibble and I sift out the powder crumbs with a mesh colander when I open a new bag. That one step ended every clog. For bounce I swapped the bowl for a wide shallow plate and set everything on a thin rubber mat. The feeder became quiet and the kibble stays put.

When I'm wrecked after nights, I set a 10-minute timer and move before the shower. Shoes by the bed, water bottle filled, playlist ready so there's no thinking. Brisk walk, wall pushups, and sit-to-stands get it done without equipment.

First, stop letting both iCloud and Google fight. Pick the one you like looking at, turn on full-resolution upload, and dump everything into it. I thought I could juggle both and ended up with eight versions of my dog in a halloween taco costume, none of them original. On a laptop, download originals from the runner-up service, import to the winner, then turn off sync on the loser so it quits duplicating. After that, let the app finish face recognition and places; it's your future search engine. Then make one album per month and toss only the keepers there during idle moments. Hit favorite on the top shots, and make a shared album called Keepers so family stops texting you for the same photos. Once a month, plug in an external SSD and export originals from the winner app to a folder named by year and month. I set a calendar reminder called Photo Dump Day because past me cannot be trusted. It takes ten minutes, and if I skip, next month I do both. That's it, no perfection, just consistent dumping.