#kinnu

[formal-demon]

Tech Detoxing

I've been wanting to take it easy on how much I use my phone or social media, mostly Instagram tbh. There's been a trend of using feature phones, single-use devices, journals, etc. to curb the tech addiction; while I would love to take part in that, I am ~broqué~ and cannot afford to buy new-to-me devices and things I can't even guarantee to myself that I would use yet. Here's what I've been trying in the meantime:

Using my phone more responsibly

For this one, I ended up deleting Instagram from my phone after having set a time limit on both the Insta app then on my phone after finding it in the Settings. I also got rid of Google (replaced with Ecosia, so I can plant trees with every search), Chat GPT, Reddit, Pinterest, and Facebook.

This allowed me to stop my doom scrolling without stopping cold-turkey and now I play around on my other apps that I've been neglecting: Cosmos, Falou, Kinnu, YouTube (trying to avoid the Shorts), and Tumblr. I've also been playing my games again like Sky: Children of the Light, Time Princess, and Palia and Legend of Zelda on my Switch.

It's been great trying to use my phone more broadly and being able to socialize and learn on more niche apps that don't have easy Dopamine access!

Using what single-use products I already have

Like I mentioned above, I have been using my Switch again to help curb boredom. I had it for years along with some of my favorite games. It's good to play games to avoid instant gratification and even more so if you have to solve puzzles or grind to advance.

I do have an Instax Mini that I bought used years ago and have grabbed a few boxes of film, but I'm waiting to use those till my upcoming trips~

I've also stocked up on some small spiral notebooks the last time I was on my university campus, adding to my little collection of notebooks and journals. I stopped worrying about "ruining" my pretty notebooks and just started using them for anything I could think of: Writing little notes of things I don't want to forget, budgeting, business plans, story ideas, trip planning, and language notes.

Learning new things

Using apps and sites like Kinnu, Falou, YouTube, and Khan Academy, I have been able to reset my brain from my overuse of Chat GPT. I find that Kinnu is a great place to start if you're wanting to learn things like philosophy, economics, history, life/professional skills, mental wellbeing, and way more in smaller and more digestible portions. It's great for weaning off of Instagram Reels or TikTok if you're wanting to get a lot in a short time.

Falou has been fun for my language learning. I have an upcoming trip to Japan next month, then a study abroad in Italy in January and I've been using Falou to learn useful phrases. It has you repeat phrases or responses which is nice for nailing pronunciation.

Starting/restarting hobbies that I've been wanting to do can also give you the dopamine you're looking for, especially when I manage to actually finish a project. I've got so much supplies from past purchases or from my mom's craft collection that I haven't needed to buy anything new. I picked up sketching! I'm not particularly good, but I'm the only one who will see my whole art book, so who cares?

Going out more

I will say, I did get the Disney Key annual pass. It was an impulse buy that my friend convinced me to get (she didn't need to try v hard tbh). But as I am a SoCal resident, I can pay monthly instead of all at once, so it feeeeels a little nicer. After going 6 times, it basically pays for itself, so I'm using girl math on this one. It gets me some outside time and it's fun to hang out with my friend in a fun place!

There's also nice malls near me where I can stroll around and manifest my future where I am rich and famous and can shop at places like those while sipping a lil boba.

My friend invited me to try out airsoft for the first time and I am so glad I went! I got shot hella times, sweat buckets, and was sore for days, but I did it and I was fairly good! I tossed myself out there since my brightly-colored self was a target anyway and I ended up getting a lot of people before they got me~

So while I haven't gotten rid of my smart phone, I have been able to manage my usage more responsibly. It does take work in that you need to be intentional in not using your phone, but it's realistic!

[tentacle-stylograph]

oh yeah, i wanted to write here because i started using an app called Kinnu (i am not sponsored lol). it has short daily lessons on a bunch of topics, and i'm almost done with the astronomy course

got HYPED when i saw there's a--aw man, just realized idt there's an "ocean life" course or anything like that.

BUT NO MATTER

THERE'S A DINOSAURS COURSE

the courses i'm especially interested in, in current order of interest:

superpower learning

world religions. i was put off how this is one mass course, and not one course for each of the seven largest religions (with extra sections for "indigenous religions" and "new religious movements"), but hey, let's start somewhere

periodic table

zoology (LOOKED AT THIS COURSE'S SECTIONS AND THERE'S A MARINE BIOLOGY SECTION AND A FRESHWATER ANIMALS SECTION RAAAAHHHH)

DINOSAURS (in the life sciences section)

world history

da Vinci (i'm listening to an audiobook on him right now. this'd probably be a good supplement/review. spoilers: he's gay gay gay homo gay)

fungi

anthropology (in social sciences)

"How Films Work" (in "art & media")

chess

geology

the rest of the physical sciences sections (i'll have finished astronomy and hopefully the periodic table, so that'd leave physics and quantum science)

cognitive biases

"How Music Works" (in "art & media")

there's other lessons i'm interested in too, like "French Revolution" and "Modern Middle East," but i'm grimacing at the possible biases that might be baked into some of them, especially the "modern middle east" one. i have a similar feeling about the world religions lessons, but i still feel like--hm. that could go for--could it? hm.

i'll finish my thoughts: "i [am similarly anxious about biases in the world religions course,] but i still feel like" it'd be good to have at least some baseline understanding of them

"hm, [it being preferable that i at least have SOME knowledge on these topics, even if at first learned from an unideal source,] could go for the more questionable courses too."

"could it [be that maybe that's not true]? that there's a difference in how these topics might get presented and the types of biases i might first get exposed to?"

anyhow

made my list of lessons, and i was DELIGHTED to get so excited seeing some of them. i've got a lot to look forward to in this app

(this image is the thumbnail for this non-Kinnu-related video)

[beautifulklicks]

Sunny in a string bag

Marina Volodko

As soon as you begin to clean the mandarin, immediately you start thinking about the New Year)

[artbytarun]

I created this show's pipeline in Blender. From pre-production, production and post-production.

[tentacle-stylograph]

AAAAAAYYYYYYY FINALLY STARTED THE DINOSAUR LESSONS ON KINNU

WHICH ALSO MEANS I'VE FINALLY (for this short time at least) LEARNED THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAURISCHIANS AND ORNITHISCHIANS (lizard-hipped: "saur" for lizard, like in "dinosaur" and bird-hipped, "orni" for bird like in ornithologist)

funnily enough, birds are descended from lizard-hipped dinos, specifically theropods (the two-legged carnivorous famous dinos), but modern birds' hips DO more resemble the bird-hipped dinos' hips

(image source)

[iamnotdavinder-blog]

sara Siswan gaah mareya asi. Subah vi kuj jyada nahi khada si. hun dupehr de 2.30 baje wapsi vele Kurali #chandigarh road te #kinnu de juice da anand lende hoe. Pura vlog Bahut hi jaldi aan wala hai apne YouTube Channel te #iamnotdavinder . . . . . #ghumakkadizindabaad #travelling #vloggerlife #beast #pongdam #kurali (at Kurali Chandigarh Rd) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLgVNN1h60g/?igshid=wi9wzfynidll

[theglowingbody]

Pineapple smoothie🍍 It is a very simple smoothie to make Nutritious & healthy Half pineapple🍍 One banana🍌 One kinnu🍊 Chop all the ingredients roughly Blend Drink @theglowingbody #theglowingbody#pineapple#banana#kinnu#theglowingbody#pineapplesmoothie🍍💛😋 (at Ludhiana, Punjab, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7fyj8Agnr8/?igshid=4o9nty0pvbf7

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