Nancy’s 2022 Top 5 Modes of Self-Regulation

Or: Top 5 ways to calm the hell down

A few years ago I read “How to Do Nothing,” by Jenny Odell. It’s about resisting the attention economy, which is a struggle for me. I wish that it wasn’t. I trend toward the compulsive side when it comes to technology and social media. Sometimes I turn on my phone and swipe through to an app like Instagram without even knowing that I’m doing it. I’m in the app before I’m consciously in the app. I cycle through seasons of removing all — the-things! all-the-socials! from my phone in a rather…