Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min · 4 segments
Being offline on purpose helps prevent burnout when work texts and pings feel nonstop. Try a simple phone boundary like Do Not Disturb during chores, dishes, or folding laundry so the brain gets real…
Ned DonovanHost
Arielle NissenblattHost
Today's tip is one that I am pretty bad at and actively working towards in my daily practice, which is practice being offline.
We are a very interconnected culture and that has poured over into basically every aspect of our lives, but most specifically like work.
20 years ago and when your brain is always on that leads to burnout i am trying to be better about taking time where i'm not on my phone i'm not answering texts i throw do not disturb on my phone up right i just try to take some space where i know i'm not getting pinged where i can focus on whatever it is i need to do i often do it while i'm like doing dishes or folding the laundry, whatever it is.
And that is my tip of the day that is more aspirational to me than anything else, which is practice being offline.
But one thing that I have done in the last month I shut off the notifications for text messages.
And I don't just mean like I'm not getting notifications on the home screen of my phone.
I mean that even if I have 10 text messages, it doesn't have a red 10 bubble.
I get rid of it so that I have to go into the text messages to check because that little dopamine hit that you get from seeing that, I just want to take that out of the equation.
Today's tip is one that I am pretty bad at and actively working towards in my daily practice, which is practice being offline.
We are a very interconnected culture and that has poured over into basically every aspect of our lives, but most specifically like work.
20 years ago and when your brain is always on that leads to burnout i am trying to be better about taking time where i'm not on my phone i'm not answering texts i throw do not disturb on my phone up right i just try to take some space where i know i'm not getting pinged where i can focus on whatever it is i need to do i often do it while i'm like doing dishes or folding the laundry, whatever it is.
And that is my tip of the day that is more aspirational to me than anything else, which is practice being offline.
But one thing that I have done in the last month I shut off the notifications for text messages.
And I don't just mean like I'm not getting notifications on the home screen of my phone.
I mean that even if I have 10 text messages, it doesn't have a red 10 bubble.
I get rid of it so that I have to go into the text messages to check because that little dopamine hit that you get from seeing that, I just want to take that out of the equation.
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