Tracking screen time is ruining your life. That’s the title of the article I read on wired,com, left me thinking.

I recently read a post on LinkedIn, A gentleman with all good intentions suggested that if you are a male and your resting heartbeat is greater than 60, you need to take action. For women that threshold is 70 because they have a smaller heart. Wow!!

Continuous glucose monitoring is one more area. If you are a 30+ male on Insta, you can’t miss these ads. People love explaining how relieved they were to know the glucose spikes after they ate a Biryani. Err, isn’t a Biryani supposed to do exactly that?

When it comes to changing oneself, we humans are like large cargo ships. There is so much structural inertia that even with all the live metrics, you could still fail to turn the ship on time because of inherent habits, genetics, environment, and countless other variables. Want to experience it, just try to wake up 30 mins earlier than your usual time.

Unfortunately, we are not like a nimble fighter jet that can change its course in a microsecond.

An afterthought:

Every Sunday morning my phone chimes notifying me that my weekly screen time report is ready. I quickly accessed the data and compared it to the previous week’s data. A few percentage-point dip makes me happy.

here is the flip side, Only recently I realized that a dip in my phone time also increases my laptop screen time for that particular week. Overall, my net screen time remains the same. Who knows there is a Netflix series I binge-watched instead of aimlessly scrolling Insta reels.

I am glad that I read the article, I know it is a confirmation bias but no one has really figured out optimum screen time for adults! phew*

You don’t need to measure everything just because you can measure it.

What do you think?

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