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Hey, what's up?
John Sonmez here from simpleprogrammer.com.
I'm on my cruise ship here at the Norwegian Star.
I wanted to do a video—I've been talking about it in a video on being disconnected.
I'm kind of using this cruise as a microcosm for real life because it is such a microcosm.
There's a lot of interesting issues to deal with on a cruise.
It's kind of funny though because I'm not the first one to do this if you think about
it, right?
There's a bunch of television shows like Love Ship, remember that, that had actually used
a cruise ship as a microcosm for real life because it's like a compacted version of it.
It's an interesting concept.
I want to talk about being disconnected because I haven't had—I'm not used to do that.
I'm used to being able to reach and over and grab my phone and see what comments there
are on the YouTube channel, checking my messages, that kind of stuff, check _____ [inaudible
00:00:53] to see what's going on with the business and answer my emails.
I haven’t been able to do that.
I'm kind of lying because in the last few days, we've been at port and I do have like—I've
got free Internet in Mexico, but it's real slow.
It’s like 2G connection.
Also, I could pay some money and get the ship's Internet access, which would be slow but I
could have that.
You know what I've done?
I've actually just switched it off because I actually decided that I kind of liked this
being disconnected.
I felt like I was being on my phone too much and I wanted to feel what it's like.
I'm going to say that the first couple of days were extremely stressful and I still
have an underlying amount of stress about this, about being disconnected, but it feels
a lot better.
I felt like—it was kind of just awakening to realize that I'm sort of tethered to my
phone and tethered to the internet too much and it's sort of burdensome.
It's kind of nice to not have that feeling of always having to check and see what's going
on.
It's an addition, right?
Honestly, like you get that dopamine rush of checking, click, click, click, did I get
a new message, did I get a new comment on my YouTube channel?
Do I have new emails to deal with?
Whether it's good or bad, it's still a dopamine rush.
I've decided that I'm going to make just to my daily routine after being on this microcosm
of the ship.
It doesn't mean that I'm going to disconnect for weeks at a time and not check my email,
because that would be burdensome.
What I think I'm going to do is try to stay disconnected except for the times that I'm
actually going to answer email, sit down times or maybe I'm looking at YouTube comments that
I specifically planned out rather than just as I'm walking on the street maybe flip through
some comments on my phone, or check some email messages because it creates that sort of tethering,
that kind of pervasive stress.
I didn't realize that I had fallen to that.
There were some times that I had taken all the social media apps off my phone and that's
kind of doing this to some degree.
I almost want to walk places without having my phone.
I have to think about if I can actually do that and not even have my phone at all.
That might even be a better solution so that I can't do those things.
I mean what am I really using the phone for?
A lot of times it's for maps, like for GPS if I'm driving, but I can leave the phone
in the car, lock it up or—and I suppose like what else do you really need the phone
for?
It's not like I'm really calling people, maybe texting people sometimes, but most of the
time I'm not when I'm travelling or walking around.
Yeah, so I might actually try that.
Anyway, this is just a report from me, nothing really groundbreaking here, obviously.
Some of you are like, "Well, duh, John!
This is very true."
I had to discover this for myself and this was a good test to see how things—I'm not
back yet, so I'm going to have a mountain of email and messages and stuff, but it feels
good to not have to deal with that all the time.
I'm getting these videos done, I'm doing my workouts, that's what I need to do to keep
things going, but I don't have to be checking my messages, I don't have to be responding
to emails everyday or checking comments on YouTube and letting that hijack my life.
I didn't even realize, like I said, you just fall into that pattern.
That's all I've got for you today.
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