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Each post stands alone, so you don’t have to read them all. Read the introduction on “[157]the mindset of more.” Too much info, too fast Information has a near-physicality to it — we feel the emotional force of content. Although the same volume of information is coming into my feed reader as always, the intensity of the content of late has made it feel like too much. The perceived speed of my intellectual spaces has increased because so much of the information I’m exposed to is emotionally distressing. And going too fast for too long makes me tired — mentally and physically. As someone prone to anxiety, I need to be conscious of how my body internalizes what I’m reading. We feel the emotional intensity of what we read from a feed as speed because it seems that a large number of consequential things have happened to us in a short span of time. Caitlin Dewey [158]frames it as being deluged: [W]hen it comes to political news… I sometimes feel like I’m standing at the base of some fucked-up virtual waterfall, with thousands of gallons of dense, icy water pounding down ceaselessly on my head. Our bodies translate our [159]online emotional experiences into physical realities; our bodies react to what happens in virtual spaces the same way they react in physical spaces, releasing stress hormones and raising our heart rate and blood pressure although we’re sitting still. Chronic stress is terrible for our health. But we wouldn’t spend so much time online if it was only bad – we also receive mental rewards from gathering information. I don’t think withdrawing from information altogether is the answer, but I wonder whether we can reclaim some agency by changing the places and ways we’re exposed to information — by controlling our perceived intellectual pace. Our intellectual pace is influenced by: • the total amount of information we’re exposed to, • how much of it we actually consume, • the information’s emotional intensity, • the place we’re consuming it, and • whether we feel we can do anything about it. Who controls our thinking spaces, controls our pace The physical and conceptual spaces where we learn and think comprise our intellectual environment: the places we read, listen or watch; and the places where we process what we’ve taken in, whether by talking about it or writing about it. Time is experienced relativistically; some hours feel faster to us than others. That sensation of where did the time go?! can happen whenever we’re immersed, whether that’s in flow state, where we are working at our peak ability, or in social media, where we are fully absorbed in the thoughts of others. These types of fast-felt experiences sit at opposite ends of a spectrum of agency. When we lack control in our intellectual environments, our mindspaces are not our own. Matt Haig argues in Notes on a Nervous Planet, “The trouble is that if we are plugged in to a vast nervous system, our happiness—and misery—is more collective than ever. The group’s emotions become our own.” Our thoughts become dominated by others’ concerns and priorities if we cannot regulate the pace at which we receive them — if we never have time to process them. And given our finite schedules, there’s often an inverse relationship between the time we spend consuming and the time we spend thinking about it. Dewey [160]summarizes the impact of the explosion of news sources and the never-ending sensationalized feed: “Together, these forces have both accelerated and flattened the news: Everything happens all at once, and everything is a crisis.” Controlling the pace of media becomes a tool of power, with political ramifications. If we’re busy watching, we’re not acting. If we’re stuck listening, we’re not thinking. If we’re not sure what’s happening, we’ll wait to gather more information. If we’re constantly playing catch up, we’re always in reactive mode, never proactive. Right now, the Trump administration is taking advantage of its control of our attentional spaces to raise our collective mental pace into overdrive. As Ezra Klein [161]puts it, “The flood is a point. The overwhelm is a point. The message wasn’t in any one executive order or announcement. It was in the cumulative effect of all of them.” The hemorrhage of horror is intended to paralyze us by overloading us with information that we don’t have time to process. But as Craig Mod [162]challenges, “The feed, the doomscroll, the hyperventilation, is the heartbeat of political and social death. It is not life. It is a false heartbeat.” Oliver Burkeman [163]encourages us to “make sure your psychological centre of gravity is in your real and immediate world – the world of your family and friends and neighborhood, your work and your creative projects, as opposed to the world of presidencies and governments, social forces and global emergencies.” It is too easy, Burkeman notes, to live “inside the news” rather than our physical reality. Our tools for accessing our thinking spaces — now almost all digital — encourage it. The web feels infinite Nicholas Carr [164]notices how, online and especially on our phones, our attention transfers from what we’re consuming to how we’re consuming it: “[W] hat engages us more and more is not the content but the mechanism. […] Whatever lies on the other side of the interface seems less and less consequential. The interface is the thing. The interface is the content.” The meta subsumes the factual. The experience overshadows the information. The interface — and its speed — are all-consuming. We used to use specialized media, Carr points out — playing a song used a different tool than reading the news — but generalist computers have consolidated the vast majority of our intellectual environment into digital devices. We both play music and read the news on our computer, whether that’s a phone or a desktop PC. A key difference for our experience is that we lost physical transitions between media. Friction reduces speed. Analog media naturally provided friction — you had to get up to flip the record, you had to go outside to grab the newspaper — while digital media aims to remove friction from all consumption. The digital format removed the constraints of physicality; this brought us endless scroll, which removed a natural cue to transition activities and deprives of the psychological satisfaction of [165]ever completing anything. Or, as Craig Mod puts it, [166]edges. Edgeless is endless. Without waypoints, it’s easy to spend longer than we realize consuming information and moving from one type of content to another. Without transitions, we exist in an unbroken now that matches the pace of our intellectual space, whether fast or slow. Our fastest space raises our baseline pace Spending time in a faster-paced space raises our threshold for stimulus as we adapt to its speed. I have found that when I dip back from the slow stream into the fast feed, even with the intention of keeping up with only one or two people, the speed can suck me in again. I tried lurking on Bluesky, but once enough people showed up, it had the same delicious taste for me as old Twitter… so I logged out in December and haven’t let myself log back in. A fast-paced environment builds a pattern of consumption and a habit of speed. For me, it is safer to stay out of the swift water altogether. The mind must convince the body to change In a culture of information superabundance, we need above all else the discipline to say “no” or to set limits upon our engagement with the vast proliferation of digital media. —[167]L.M. Sacasas To lower my pace, I want to take in less information in total. But it’s not as simple as deciding to take in less information; living that decision is the hard part. A change like this is not just intellectual, but embodied, too. When I was trying to escape Twitter’s staccato mode of thinking, I found my muscle memory challenged my mental discipline. I could fully intend not to look at Twitter, but in moments of transition, the habitual movement of my fingers on the keyboard carried me back again and again, forcing me to exercise [168]my will continuously. My subconscious urge to fill any gap with stimulus was powerful. Ultimately, I had to [169]block the site with my Hosts file (and eventually quit my job where I had to use Twitter 😉). My body resisted my conscious desire to stop reading Twitter, and I had to change my environment to force myself to let it go. I’m reminded of the Ray Bradbury story [170]Frost and Fire (spoilers for an eighty year old novella 😉), where people’s lives last mere days — then the main characters decide to brave the perilous journey to the spaceship their ancestors left behind. When they enter, their bodies literally slow down, and the hero believes himself to be dying: “The ship he had come to for salvation was now slowing his pulse, darkening his brain, poisoning him. With a starved, faint kind of expiring terror, he realized that he was dying. […] He had a dim sense of time passing, of thinking, struggling, to make his heart go quick, quick…. to make his eyes focus. But the fluid in his body lagged quietly through his settling veins and he heard his pulse thud, pause, thud, pause and thud again with lulling intermissions. […] Is this death? This slowing of blood, of my heart, this cooling of my body, this drowsy thinking of thoughts?” When he finally recovers from the shock, when he acclimates to the new slowness, he realizes the ship has saved him: the slower pace means his life will not end in eight days. The dramatic change in pace felt like dying, so he fought it, but now that his body is no longer racing, his life is comparably infinite. Everyone who stayed behind has grown old in the days he took to adapt. I think any sudden change in the pace of our intellectual environment can spark this same kind of physical shock. At the same time, when we are immersed in the feed, it can be hard to notice that our pace is wearing us out and recognize that we have the power to change it. We can change our mental — and physical — pace by changing the places where we spend time: choosing new spaces and shaping the ones we choose. We cannot force ourselves to change, but we can create environments for ourselves that encourage and support what we want, and discourage what we don’t want, applying friction with intention. Lowering the pace of my online intellectual spaces On the open web, we can choose our own pace of information because we — not corporations — are in control of our environment. Taking in information across a broad spread of paces For finding new things to read online, I mainly turn to my feed reader. I also: • use the library catalog and Goodreads as [171]browsing-thinking tools, • get temperature readings from microbloggers on the Fediverse via micro.blog, • explore outwards through the open web from articles and personal websites, • seek answers from DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, and Reddit, • absorb random facts from YouTubers, and • probe more widely with Search My Site and Marginalia Search. Some of these are fast spaces, some slow; many let me set my own pace. I’ve corralled most of my media exposure into my feed reader, which helps because I must choose to open it, and have removed access from my phone. But while I generally feel [172]RSS is a healthy way to follow writers, it’s still [173]a feed. And feeds, whether self-curated or assembled by a corporate algorithm, are designed to be an efficient information delivery mechanism. Their function is to provide easy, immediate* access to new information. *(James built [174]a slow feed reader!) Choosing quieter spaces One of the dials I think about for media exposure is how much noise I will tolerate to find signal; accepting more noise means I can find signal from a broader band. The massive spectrum of information and event-dense experience of social media creates a noisy intellectual environment. On RSS, I control how loud my space is, how much chatter I allow in. This intellectual loudness translates into perceived speed. To draw on a wide pool of information and sources, I have for years permitted my feed reader to be a noisy — thus relatively fast — space. I’ve erred on the side of subscribing, adding blogs and newsletters to my feed reader with abandon. The quantity and constant influx of information can impose an artificial pressure to consume it; the fact that it exists implies we ought to read it. Granting myself a smaller, tighter pool of reading material to choose from could make exercising mental discipline easier. I am starting to unsubscribe from a few feeds, though I am reluctant to remove too many 😉 I am thinking of creating a second RSS feed for myself on a different service, subscribing only to my favorite 20-30 feeds; I can check that during the week, and on weekends, when I have a bit more capacity, can take a peek at my full feed to see if there’s anything I missed. (A lot of times, news seems to play itself out over the span of a week.) Using the tools my spaces offer I access my online intellectual spaces in my feed reader, read-later app, and internet browser on my phone and desktop computer. The apps have different levels of control, as do the devices. My phone opens me up to a world of distractions with apps as well as access to the open web; my process of reading only from my read-later app on the phone creates a slower environment even on a device biased towards speed. The overall stimulus we experience in a space influences how fast it feels. Ads increase visual noise, so [175]I block them on desktop and use DuckDuckGo browser on mobile, which blocks ads way better than Firefox browser. Color adds visual stimulation, so I set up the accessibility shortcut on my phone to toggle me into greyscale mode; if I’m feeling overwhelmed, I can hit that to instantly drop my pace. My current process of [176]selecting and reading at different times, using different tools, takes advantage of my read later app’s slow environment. Instapaper doesn’t recommend me a bunch of junk like Pocket did; it’s just my own stuff. (One of the many reasons I quit Pocket.) Using tags — including a ⭐ tag to mark the things I most want to read — and archiving aggressively condenses the amount of information I’m exposed to when I open the app even more. I use [177]micro.blog as my most social online space, which I generally look at once or twice a day for ten minutes (and could get away with even less 😉) I picked micro.blog as my connection to the Fediverse because it doesn’t show follower counts or allow reposts (or quote posts, though I personally have found these useful). It’s a pretty small community, and most people are not heavy posters. Between the tooling and the number of users, this means the volume of posts is much lower than Bluesky and corporate silos. The feed offers a variety of controls for what I see; I recently muted a few terms related to the corporate silos and generative AI because these topics aren’t really beneficial for me to think about. I also appreciate that it doesn’t have endless scroll, and while you can proceed through a few pages, you cannot go backwards forever in time. The feed has an end. Creating endings The web may feel infinite, but we can create spaces within it that feel finite. New material constantly flows into my feed reader. Every day, there are 20-50 new posts I could consider reading. In the past several weeks, I’ve started “marking all as read” in my feed reader after I open anything that looks interesting, whereas in the past I’d leave it all visible and peruse it a second or third time. I’m also working on leaving fewer tabs open in my phone browser. (I aim for just one at the end of the day — my weeknotes draft post for easy access throughout the week — but sometimes that don’t happen 😉) This is a practice in letting go of what I won’t read or use, in acknowledging my time limitations and sticking to my own priorities. Especially in the current news environment, I have to be honest with myself about what information is useful *to me* ([178] not in a capitalist sense 😉) and what I am likely to act on. Teaching myself to expect less information With [179]my self-imposed media diet — only allowing myself to look at my feed reader on the desktop, and saving everything to my read later app — I’m experiencing a lesser level of pace shock again, like I did when I quit Twitter. I’ve been accustomed to a constant influx of information, and I get antsy for novelty. Chris Bailey [180]points out that when you cut back dramatically on the stimulus you take in, “what feels like restlessness is really just your mind calming down.” I am retraining my brain about the pace of information it can expect to receive. Collecting less leaves me more mental space. So far, half the time I disrupt the impulse to feed my brain something new, I read things I’ve already saved on my read-later app, and the other half I start blogging. Both of these are a win in my book 😄 I’m still in the transitional phase, not yet adapted, but I’ve carved out room for myself to slow down by changing my environment. My hunger for the new will probably never fully go away, but I think I can gradually pacify it into subsidence. Further reading: [181]What is rotting, if not rest? by Haley Nahman See also: [182]Reclaiming intentionality in browsing and blogging This is the (current) last article in a [183]series on the mindset of more. • • Previous: [184]The open web as gift economy (Part 4) • Tags [185]agency, [186]balance, [187]bodies, [188]control, [189]FOMO, [190] indie web, [191]IndieWeb, [192]letting go, [193]media diet, [194]open web, [195]overwhelm, [196]pacing, [197]place, [198]Ray Bradbury, [199]slow living, [200]social media, [201]spaces, [202]speed, [203]willpower [b1231bba531dc25e30] By Tracy Durnell Writer and designer in the Seattle area. Reach me at tracy@tracydurnell.com or @tracy@notes.tracydurnell.com. She/her. 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It’s loosely based on how frequently they post and how frequently I read vs skip them. The gold ones I almost always take time to read, and they tend to be the ones posting less frequently. Bronze is where I put all the blogs where I skip a lot of the posts. It’s also where I put most newly added blogs, and ones I’m considering removing. And silver is something in between. For me this distinction works pretty well. I have different approaches and expectations for each folder. [212]Reply [b1231bba531dc] [213]Tracy Durnell says: [214]February 24, 2025 at 8:29 am Ooh, the color tags are a great idea, thank you Erik! I have a “trying out” tag, but it hasn’t been that useful because sometimes people only post every few months so they are in there for a really long time, and then the folder has so many people in it I can’t keep track of who’s who. [215]Reply [912c1c1f9a18b] Erik says: [216]February 24, 2025 at 3:22 am Also, thanks for this series of posts! 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