How do you keep hitting with these video themes, most of these have been so relevant it's amazing, this was served up mid scroll wasting time between my input for today, ironically useful in retrospect for it to hit then. The time wasting spiral is terrifying when you step back and see the Web of distraction and wasted life, ironically slamming in 7 hours of video content with DS is what helped me realise the large chunks of "useless" time I've had up until now. Also how I do have all this free time to be used for more useful means, once I get my spanish to maintenance I don't think I'll want to fill the void with scrolling ever again. Good video, I got more input ahead now. The few English words I've heard today were from you lmao. Worth it.
The web of distraction- Exactly!!! There were so many times where I’d get 2 or 3 hours of input in a day but realize that it was accompanied by like 6 hours of looking through random nonsense of Instagram or Reddit. It’s such a challenge to stop that while still allowing yourself access to the good parts of tech and language immersion!
@DoomscrollToFluency it's not an easy task to undo conditioning, it's fucked but that's how the companies want us, on those apps mindlessly consuming. More profitable for them to run ads that way and it also holds an unbelievable sway on the minds of the users. We slipped into a dystopian future without the cool shit and we didn't even notice. It's so hard to balance the language immersion within this web of distraction no matter the strand you find yourself on, at every corner no matter how many plugins you use to disable the algorithm based attention traps it'll never be fully removed because at the core of all of these sites user retention is the main goal. Honestly that's why I like the idea of the Dreaming Spanish platform, I go there. I see only spanish immersion content, it's my gateway to yt without the distraction. Imo the future of language immersion and educational content in general on these sites lays within the ability to filter out the unwanted noise and provide it directly like Pablo has done for DS.
How do you keep hitting with these video themes, most of these have been so relevant it's amazing, this was served up mid scroll wasting time between my input for today, ironically useful in retrospect for it to hit then.
The time wasting spiral is terrifying when you step back and see the Web of distraction and wasted life, ironically slamming in 7 hours of video content with DS is what helped me realise the large chunks of "useless" time I've had up until now.
Also how I do have all this free time to be used for more useful means, once I get my spanish to maintenance I don't think I'll want to fill the void with scrolling ever again.
Good video, I got more input ahead now. The few English words I've heard today were from you lmao. Worth it.
The web of distraction- Exactly!!! There were so many times where I’d get 2 or 3 hours of input in a day but realize that it was accompanied by like 6 hours of looking through random nonsense of Instagram or Reddit. It’s such a challenge to stop that while still allowing yourself access to the good parts of tech and language immersion!
@DoomscrollToFluency it's not an easy task to undo conditioning, it's fucked but that's how the companies want us, on those apps mindlessly consuming.
More profitable for them to run ads that way and it also holds an unbelievable sway on the minds of the users. We slipped into a dystopian future without the cool shit and we didn't even notice.
It's so hard to balance the language immersion within this web of distraction no matter the strand you find yourself on, at every corner no matter how many plugins you use to disable the algorithm based attention traps it'll never be fully removed because at the core of all of these sites user retention is the main goal.
Honestly that's why I like the idea of the Dreaming Spanish platform, I go there. I see only spanish immersion content, it's my gateway to yt without the distraction.
Imo the future of language immersion and educational content in general on these sites lays within the ability to filter out the unwanted noise and provide it directly like Pablo has done for DS.
I’m 71 so don’t have a strong connection to screens but nevertheless spend far too much time looking at them. Food for thought here.
It is absolutely wild how quickly they went from new technology to completely ubiquitous!
I appreciate you watching the video.
Cool story, mate