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 2title: Writing a blog
 3author: chris 
 4date: 2026-01-26
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 6
 7A year ago, I started reading other people's blog posts. I like it to gather
 8different quick-written thoughts and expressions, as they are (mostly) easy to
 9understand and extend your perspective on the unnoticed but significant steps.
10At some point, I understood that it helps me to get away from my mobile phone
11addiction, and this changed my view on addiction quite a bit.
12
13# Craving constant stimulation
14
15A long time, I was suffering from *doom-scrolling TikTok* syndrome. The first
16thing I did after waking up was to take my phone and start scrolling. With a
17screentime of a few hours, I probably wasn’t the worst off, but I really hated
18my mobile phone addiction. I decided to try to get rid of it once and for all.
19
20The first step was to uninstall TikTok. Steps like these always seem helpful at
21first, because the change in behaviour is quite apparent in the beginning. But
22after some time, you realise that the other apps you now use more, achieve a
23similar level of stimulation, and the situation didn’t even change a bit.
24
25A more extreme example can be seen in selling my Galaxy Z Fold 5 in favour of
26the Unihertz Jelly Star, a super small 3-inch Android smartphone. I removed all
27social-media apps and only use them for ‘necessary’ stuff, like messaging,
28calling and navigating. You cannot deny that it didn’t help at all: It’s really
29not fun to look at the screen. I nearly completely eradicated my screentime to
30a daily average of 30 minutes. My mobile phone became my **side device**,
31replaced by my desktop.
32
33And this is the problem. I got a new main device. The less screentime I had on
34my mobile, the more I had on my desktop. So what’s the purpose of all this? How
35can you effectively work against such an addiction when you always have access
36to it, never mind all the efforts of removing the access?
37
38This was one of the first times in life when I realised that things are more
39complicated than they seem at first glance. The simple solution of removing the
40device in problem does not **remove the habit in problem**. I need to work on
41those habits and not just throw everything away that seems like it could be
42misused by me. This is where I learned that you need to replace habits with
43different (weaker) ones.
44
45And here comes Hacker News! I mean, this is basically the same as TikTok,
46right? People create some stuff, you watch it, you (not) happy. But this is why
47this habit is weaker, and therefore better for my everyday life:
48
49- The **amount of new content** is very limited in comparison to TikTok, which
50  makes it easier to get a break.
51- The **length of most blog posts** is perfect: they are long enough not to
52  throw you into ‘doom-reading’ hell, and they are short enough to keep you
53  entertained in reading.
54- I think the content (or the way the content is delivered) is easier to grasp
55  due to a different **target audience**. It’s less about polarising, more
56  about personal knowledge extension.
57
58(In this context, it is fair to talk about AI slop posts that get thrown onto
59Hacker News. Imo, that actively steers against everything I talked about so far
60, and I am not a fan of it.)
61
62This type of habit shift is exactly what I needed! I don’t feel the need
63anymore to stimulate myself with short-form videos, because I’m happy with the
64(much less) time I’m spending on peoples’ blog webpages.
65
66# Creating content
67
68A month ago, I started thinking: What are those people who create content? I
69always felt very distant from these kinds of people, but in a negative way. And
70it really started itching: I want to create, too! I want to write about my
71expressions and my thoughts, and I want to share what I know with the world.
72After some thought about post topics, I gathered a list of things I want to
73talk about, and now I’m determined to try this out.
74
75With my own blog, I want to achieve:
76
77- appreciating more **where I am** right now, and being more upfront about it.
78- creating the same **positive feeling** that I get after reading a good blog
79  post for my (for now imaginary) readers.
80
81So this is my first blog post about creating blog posts (yikes, I feel like
82that was done before).
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85*AI-Note: Grammarly was used to fix grammar mistakes.*