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Scenario

How to navigate shared living space during entertainment fasting

My roommate and I decided to do a month without streaming services to break our binge-watching cycle and reconnect with slower pleasures, but now our evenings feel awkward and forced when we try to talk or read together. We used to flow around each other naturally but without our shows as background, we don't know how to share space and time.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Removing familiar rhythms of consumption reveals how much you've relied on external stimulation to mediate the simple complexity of being together.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fasting and time — the reset?”

Peri

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