The micro-stresses ruling your life

The article opens with a short list of micro-stress examples:

>The WiFi cuts out just as you’re about to make an urgent online purchase, ...

No sooner than I got past that sentence, a paywall popped up. The irony.

I was eventually able to get around the paywall, but it raises a point: a wide variety of micro-stressors come from this environment wherein we're constantly being advertised to, asked to buy something, or being outright productized ourselves via our data.

It's inconvenient and exhausting and creates a universe of tiny tasks with which to constantly contend; from blocking spam calls and emails and online ads to still being exposed to time-stealing messages no matter what you do.

Sure, you can deploy an array of tools to bypass some of this, but even that's just more to manage.

The only way I've found to manage all of this is to detach. Turn off your devices, go for a walk in nature, sit down and read a book, do some manual craft work. Something purely analog, old-fashioned, uncomplicated.

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That paywall causes micro-stress.