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When digital silence triggers fear of missing out

I enable Do Not Disturb mode but then manually check all my apps anyway because the silence feels like something might be wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Constant connectivity creates anxiety around disconnection that perpetuates the cycle of digital checking.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist contemplative computing?”

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