- Going on more walks and runs.
- Spending more time with kids and spouse, particularly actively listening to.
- Getting back to being used to, and comfortable with, being bored, like we were before social media and shorts.
I don't think building tech is a good solution to tech addiction.
I got a phone lock box and bring physical books everywhere now. I bring classics or sci-fi stuff.
What really started driving me crazy is that when I'm doing kid stuff like sports or library events all the parents drop of their kids, head to the parent area, and everyone sits on their phones.
I'm always the only one reading a book. And yeah I have my phone with me, but I try to exclusively use it to take pictures.
i picked up sewing (messenger bags, backpacks etc) with an industrial sewing machine - it's a real rabbit hole but i get a real, tangible reward for my hard work (something besides "hey cool, the blinkenlights do the thing now"). it's pretty amazing to assemble a physical good and then use it on a daily basis, and i've gotten to the point where i've even made bags for others who like my stuff.
it's not going to replace my tech career as far as paying the bills, but i get to use a lot of the same abstract mental tools (design, iteration, experimentation, learning from others and disassembling/reassembling things to learn how they work).
Nobody ever says I want to spend more time behind the computer.
I think I'm going to go paint lines in parking lots.