welcome to my weekly diary!

here, i will be posting weekly reflections. these will be uploaded every friday!

week 1: social media, screentime, and reconstruction

1/9/2026

this week was the first week i've spent off of social media (or at least through my phone)... minus pi.fyi and substack. which i think i'll be deleting from my phone sometime soon. it's going great, the way i knew it would. i deleted tiktok over a year and a half ago and then deleted instagram on and off for months at a time– so i knew this was going to be great for my mental health.

i do use some social medias on my laptop– like youtube, substack, and pi.fyi. i'd say letterboxd but i don't really use it or upload anything on it. i feel way more disciplined when i'm using my laptop because it doesn't feel so glued to my hands the way my phone seems to be. my phone screentime is finally at an all time low– 3 hours a day– and i'd love to keep it this way.

outside of my phone usage, i've been spending a lot of time coding this website AND i'm having so much fun! it makes me wish i had taken classes for web development or design in high school or university– which i guess i could technically do now. we'll see!

i've also been playing a lot of pokemon legends: z-a, reading essays on substack and everything i know about love by dolly alderton (which will be logged in my media log), and spending time on the phone or in person with loved ones. i feel like the brain rot is finally beginning to heal! my attention span is regaining strength, my dopamine levels aren't being destroyed by quick hits of short-form video content (hence the deletion of apps that have short-form video content– outside of the fact that social media is generally so isolating), and i feel all in all pretty good about life right now!