[HN Gopher] Digital Health Rules
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Digital Health Rules
Author : vitabenes
Score : 47 points
Date : 2022-03-06 10:51 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| VariableStar wrote:
| I can attest from own experience and that of others around me
| that rule 8, 'spend time outside' is a key factor for improving
| well being. Leave the screen and go outside. Now!
| daqhris wrote:
| the amount of stress (induced by mindlessly scrolling) that can
| be relieved by a simple walk is too huge not to recommend it
| !!!
|
| (founder of awalkaday.art - digital gallery of photos taken
| during daily walks).
| fkfkno wrote:
| Very true, but touching grass is certainly easier for some than
| for others.
|
| How many people actually have a garden these days? Access to
| the great outdoors was further confounded by the recent
| lockdown, too.
| VariableStar wrote:
| Yes, true. Living in a big cities can amount to nature
| deficit. Hopefully there will be some park, riverside alle or
| something nearby.
| marban wrote:
| Rule 8.1: ... And don't listen to podcasts while outside.
| thenerdhead wrote:
| Perhaps digital wellbeing or even digital wellness might be a
| better title. Digital health feels more like the actual health
| metrics calculated from your low energy bluetooth device like an
| Apple watch or iPhone.
|
| I do applaud the author for making this blog straight to the
| point.
|
| I think you could TL;DR the article even further and say "Use
| technology purposefully and not aimlessly". In doing so, you'd
| come up with your own "rules" that works for you.
| aozgaa wrote:
| A bit ironic to find this article by way of casually browsing HN.
| ryanSrich wrote:
| As someone that has worked in and currently sells B2B SaaS to
| digital health companies, this title and the resulting post
| really confused me for a few seconds. For those wondering -
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_health
| palindrome818 wrote:
| I liked rule 6 "treat your phone like a book". One thing I did
| recently was remove the news stories from my google home page.
| I'd go to search something and then get caught up in some
| horrific news story. Any advice for people using dating apps? How
| do you make sure you're using the dating app and not the other
| way around?
| thr0wawayf00 wrote:
| I've had a really hard time finding a balance with dating apps,
| they're easily my most addictive phone habit. I recently hard-
| deleted all of my dating app accounts to take an extended
| break.
|
| Before that, I tried several different things to modify my
| dating app behavior:
|
| I would set Screen Time in iOS and give myself a one hour limit
| per day with a separate Screen Time password. This worked OK
| but it was still too easy to keep requesting 15 more minutes at
| a time. To deal with this, I would delete the app from my phone
| when I reached my time limit since they're way too easy to
| access from the iOS app tray and the app icon is a major
| trigger for me.
|
| The major thing that helped was setting a month-on month-off
| schedule. I would pay for a premium account for one month only
| and cancel the subscription right after purchase and get to
| inbox zero on my app when it was time to turn the app off.
|
| At the end of the month on, I would put my profile into hidden
| mode so I know that I won't get new matches in my month off,
| and I would also delete all stale matches. I would keep all
| active matches and just talk to them until we either met or
| went silent and then I would delete them. Keeping my inbox as
| clean as possible really reduced temptation.
| vitabenes wrote:
| I don't have any piece of advice specific to dating apps. A
| good general thing is to put a Screen Time/Digital Wellbeing
| widget on your homescreen, so that you see how much time you
| spend in a particular app. If you get over 1h / day and it's
| not for stuff like business or personal communication, then it
| might be time for a reset (removing the app for a few days,
| logging out of it, setting limits).
| elviejo wrote:
| Suggestions for such an app?
| vitabenes wrote:
| I meant the Screen Time feature of iOS, and Digital
| Wellbeing app, which is made by Google. Both enable you to
| put a widget with the app/time breakdown right on your home
| screen. Some older versions of iOS or Android might not
| support it, though.
| trabant00 wrote:
| This things are reworded goals, not a strategy. It's like telling
| a smoker the way to quit is "don't light cigarettes".
|
| One must understand the chain of events that lead to overusing
| the internet and intervene waaaay befor the urge arises. Once it
| does it is roo late. You can't simply "search, don't browse" if
| you are bored with nothing to do, hate what you should be working
| on, don't have friends to hang out with or whatever.
| abendy wrote:
| > 6. When outside, treat your phone like it's a book
|
| I do this. But I think of my phone as a toolbox. I grab it when I
| need it to do something _for me_.
| vitabenes wrote:
| I think that's the way to treat all devices.
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