How To Take Back The Time That Your Phone Controls?

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Recap

We spend a lot of time on our phones, and as a result, more and more of our time is being taken away. Nesslabs interviewed the developers of Unpluq, an app that helps people spend less time on their phones by reducing message triggers and increasing the cost of app use.

1. The root cause of mobile encroachment on our time is our unconscious habit, which is of course related to the philosophy behind the development of many apps, so it is difficult to change such habits.
2. Smartphones were invented to improve the quality of our lives, for example, tools apps like maps and navigation can greatly facilitate our lives. We also don't indulge in such tool apps, and most of our time is consumed by big apps like social media/dating/news, so we need to distinguish these apps.

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Last week we shared two articles on lifelong learning, both about the "how", but it seems we left out the "why". Today's share from David Perell fills in the gaps: why does learning begin?

1. There are two causes of learning: one is forced, such as by the pressure of exams, and the other is based on curiosity, such as when we hum a song because we like the tune or the singer, and then we can't help but sing it.
2. Traditional teaching models are basically based on the former and are therefore ineffective; if we could adopt more of the latter, the results might be different.
3. In the case of lifelong learning, which is based more on the latter than the former, we also need to learn based on interest as much as possible so that we can maintain our interest in learning.

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David Perell gives his insights on how to get inspired, and a few of them are very constructive.

1. Inspiration must not be rushed, and the more you rush, the less you get.
2. Immersion in social media is not very helpful in gaining inspiration; reading books may be more thought provoking.
3. Getting inspiration is actually a systematic project. Instead of expecting inspiration to come to you suddenly, you should accumulate it slowly and build a system to capture it.

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Jon Paul Uritis shares his ten pieces of financial advice.

1. Earn more and spend less.
2. Keep a low profile and remain safe.
3. The difficulty of recognizing that one's "enough" is enough.
4. Most popular financial advice is nonsense.
5. Remain alert to investment recommendations on which consensus has been generated.
6. Invest in themselves and in what they know.
7. Awareness of the existence of "shadow" financial decisions.
8. Avoidance of taxes is like avoiding the plague.
9. Creativity begins when you remove two zeros from the budget.
10. Narratives are not reality.

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Two of them are similar to the ones shared last week.

1. Earn more and spend less
2. Invest in yourself

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Ben Thompson shares his thoughts on the meta-universe that's been on fire lately.

1. The Internet itself is the metaverse, so the metaverse is not new.
2. Digital presence is separated from physical presence, and Covid accelerates this separation. This is best exemplified, for example, by remote working, where all work takes place in the same digital location, even though no one is based in the same physical location.
3. the rule of nothing made the Internet what it is, so will the metaverse, and any metaverse dominated by corporations/institutions will not go far.
4. the biggest market in the metaverse will be the office market, not the gaming market as previously thought.
5. that it was inevitable that Facebook would change its name to Meta, because no one wanted to take a social media office.
6. Microsoft is the first of all companies to potentially build something within the meta-universe, as its Teams is a meta-universe platform, and tools like Office provide broader support, an advantage that other Silicon Valley companies don't have.
7. that Meta's chances are not as good as Microsoft's because Meta only has Oculus and no ecology of its own.
8. Apple's eyes are focused on AR, not VR, and Apple's ecosystem is less open than Microsoft's, so it's Microsoft's chance.

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