Their poor information management skills force them to rely on constant notifications from whatever apps they install and to which they nearly-instantly read or reply, never batch-processing anything in their life.
And they are perfectly fine with it. Oh, they might complain the way some people complain about the weather: “It’s colder than I thought it would be today”, but still not returning home to get a sweater.
And the systems which these types are involved in (jobs, school, groups, clubs) are kowtowing to them more each year. In fact, often those very same systems are run by the same types. It is, to them, unthinkable that anyone would “go rogue” and not have a smartphone lighting up their face 200+ times a day. They see well-managed, calm, distraction-free people (or those trying to be) as cabin-dwelling off-grid and out-of-touch people who are “missing out” on how “easy” life is if you just let everyone and everything ping you with every update.
My all time favorite is the text message about the “email I just sent you”. I know my darling, I keep my shit together.
@zsbenke Sometimes I get notified about a slack message in a channel, then have the person who posted that message send me a private message telling me that there’s a message, with a couple of follow up messages…And it’s always about stuff to check later.
@zsbenke I want to thank you for introducing me to the justuseemail website. You once reposted how to plan projects via email. I’ve been reading new articles by this author ever since.
On the topic of the post, I don’t know, I survive in a world where, it seems to me, everyone around me has gone crazy. People spend all day watching reels, shorts, writing on WhatsApp, Telegram and expect the same from everyone else.
I feel like an outcast because I only have email and I don’t share my phone number. It’s hard because people are losing the skill of reading and understanding information, losing the skill of writing meaningful text. Instead, everyone writes one word per message.