2 Feb 23 8:16 pm type: related:
controlling what you consume
it’s well known that you can use social media to get opportunities and level up in life, but many people can’t figure out the best way to
some quick changes to how you use social media should get you to maximize your outcome from media and internet pretty fast
- control your consumption if you let your timeline decide what u consume, it’s going to be all over the place and your going to end up not gaining anything.
instead control your feed using multiple accounts ( just to consume ), lists (twitter), mailbrew etc
i consume media mainly through twitter, newsletters, youtube and sometimes instagram ( for quick motivation )
here’s how I’ve optimised them so that i am in full control of what content goes into my brain because remember, what you consume is what you think about, what you think about is what you talk about, what you talk about is what you end up doing. so control what you consume. (capturing the top of the funnel guarantees wins )
for twitter i have multiple lists which i add people to the second i follow them (was building sm to make this easier ( but fuck twitter for making their api paid 😔)) and i scroll only those lists you can steal other people’s lists if it’s public btw, so do ur dd!
for youtube there’s this awesome extension which blocks home page, shorts, and all the junk youtube has, leaving you with your library and subscription page i click on videos either through search ( 80% of the time i only search for vids on yt ) or through my subscriptions page
i also have some playlists of things am learning so it comes up in my library ^-^
for newsletter who likes messy email inboxes? no one.
use mailbrew for all your newsletters, you can change your substack email to your mailbrew email and sub to other newsletters using mailbrew, and you can customize your daily brew to give you good content every morning ( or whatever time you want )
for Instagram honestly i try to avoid the app as much as possible, but when i do, i follow certain accounts who make my feed golden - so nothing to optimize there really ( just stop using Instagram 🙏🏻 its brain damagy)
doing this, you 1 become more mindful of your consumption and 2 optimize your scroll to learn as much as possible and avoid all the bs