I know my phone is The Anxiety Machine. What can I do about it? Prompted by this podcast: an interview with Casey Johnston, who wrote this great article about “The DIY Dumbphone” (in which you do a factory reset on your phone, and get more intentional about installing apps).

Yes, I’ve deleted the main offenders: “X”, Facebook and Instagram. But my phone is still absolutely full of apps. A lot of them are actually useful and fun: Gemini and Gopher readers, guitar tuner, maps, notes, RSS reader, and radio apps among them. How do I know where to draw the line?

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Here begins an #incredible new blog. I love reading from other people’s personal sites on RSS, but mine tends to be more like “I released this” and other boring shite. I decided to create a new feed, for posts I wouldn’t necessarily want on the front page of my website. Just in case a rando visits to see if I’m a good musician, and instead finds a bunch of witterings about gestalt cycles and that.

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