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10 Websites Better Than Another Hour of Doomscrolling
Here’s to the rabbit holes worth taking!
A few weeks ago, I noticed I’d developed a very specific talent. I could unlock my phone to check the weather and somehow end up watching someone reorganize their pantry, review airport bathrooms, or explain why waking up at 4:37 a.m. was apparently the secret to success.
At first, it was an innocent twenty-minute session, then forty, and then 3 hours! The worst part wasn’t that I was wasting time. It was that I wasn’t even enjoying it anymore. I had a headache after that, but I couldn’t seem to stop doing it!
As someone who genuinely loves the internet, that realization surprised me. I love discovering interesting things. I love reading random facts. I can happily lose an hour researching why octopuses have three hearts or how ancient libraries organized their books.
Somewhere along the way, though, the internet became… three apps.
Even books weren’t a complete cure. I’d finish a chapter, feel wonderfully relaxed, and then immediately reach for my phone “just for a minute.” You already know how that story ends.
So instead of trying to use the internet less, I tried using it differently.
