
Avoiding The Superfluous | Where To Spend Your Valuable Attention!
About this episode
What happens when you have too much?
In Episode #390 of 'Musings', Juan & I discuss: how this is different from net negative time sinks, politics/complaining/drugs, personality traits that can lead to time wasting, how to avoid the endless digital scrolling, whether you need to become minimalist, Jordan Peterson time accounting and why it's such an intractable problem.
Lots of tasty Satoshi support from Dave Jones, Bitcoinplusfood, Adam Curry & McIntosh. So, so appreciated!
Timeline:
(0:00) - Mere Mortals are necessary
(0:49) - Why this topic?
(2:13) - Definition & identification
(8:50) - The big superfluous things
(13:50) - Fashion & clothing choices
(16:47) - Perfectionist OCD behaviour & just in case news
(22:26) - Online consumption
(26:26) - Boostagram Lounge
(37:03) - The time factor
(45:42) - Minimalism & speech
(49:29) - Language needs to be rich and lengthy
(54:04) - Summary
(58:58) - V4V: Every satoshi is necessary!
Intro Music by 'Signs Of New Growth':
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