YouTube playlist
Digital Minimalism, Brain Rot, & Personal Curriculum
lightbulbsubliminals · 158 videos
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How writing (by hand) changes your brain
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You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why. -
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How to Become That Student in 2026 | New Year Transformation for Students -
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I Ditched Spotify... -
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how to be DISGUSTINGLY overeducated ˙𖦹 ˖° 🧠 ༘⋆｡ ˚ without trying too hard -
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What Happens When You Ditch Your Phone For Hobbies? -
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End-Stage Content Addiction -
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so you deleted social media... now what? -
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4 Ways I Distance Myself From Technology -
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Become A Renaissance Man With 3 Hours/Day -
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The Reason Why No One Has Hobbies Anymore -
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I Split My Phone Into 5 Devices and My Screen Time Dropped 80% -
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Handwriting Literally Rewires Your Brain -
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Why Everyone's Buying the Walkman Again. -
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The Rise of the Subscription Economy -
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how to: build a personal curriculum 🖋️☕️ -
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Train your attention span SO GOOD it feels boring to scroll -
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The only way to get off social media -
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I Used a Dumb Phone for 3 Months Straight - Here’s What I Learned -
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How slow reading can change your brain -
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You'll NEVER Doomscroll Again After Watching This -
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Mini Essays - The Perfect Tool for Lifelong Learners -
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Should You Switch to a Dumbphone in 2025? -
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My digital detox journey (as a gen Z) -
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People Who Read Are Harder to Control -
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My Personal Curriculum + how to start your own 📖 self help, growth, academics, bookish vibes -
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How Reading Fiction Affects Your Brain -
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How I'm Creating my Personal Curriculum for Autumn [FREE template] -
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Why I switched back to a flip phone (as a gen z) 🔅 -
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Why Physical Media Is Cool Again -
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single purpose or dedicated devices I use ✨ -
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If You Could Live a Life Without Social Media... -
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Decentralizing My Smartphone: I Moved My Life Off My Phone -
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Frutiger Aero - In Search Of The Future -
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I decentralized my smartphone (for digital minimalism) -
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The Touch-Screenification of Life Has Gone Too Far... -
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I Broke Up With Technology. You Should Too -
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How to Speak Articulately -
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I Tried the Most Extreme Dumbphone Ever Made -
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Analog Ways to Improve your Apartment -
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Gen z, anemoia, and lost identity -
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What Reading Does To Your Brain -
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How to Dumb-ify Your Phone and Get Your Life Back - 4 Months Later -
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How handwriting benefits your brain | Neuropsychologist Dr. Audrey van der Meer -
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Being Chronically Offline Is The New Cool -
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Swapping smart devices for analog changed my life -
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How We Came to Hate Technology -
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Our TV-Obsessed Family of Six Went Screen-Free & Here's What Happened -
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Why Is Everything A Monthly Subscription Now...? -
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We Investigated Al Psychosis. What We Found Will Shock You -
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The Importance of Inconvenience -
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Frutiger Aero-What Could Have Been -
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Are Our Lives Becoming Too Dystopian...? -
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Why Is Gen Z Obsessed With Nostalgia? -
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Why Physical Media is Making a HUGE Comeback in 2025 -
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Why everyone is quitting social media -
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I Tried Slow Living Using a Dumb Phone for a Week -
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The Downfall of Casual Hobbies -
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The Soft Return to Analog Living -
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I made a dopamine menu to stop doom scrolling (and you should too) -
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Gen Alpha Still Can’t Read Anything -
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Self Education: Your Best Defense Against Brain Rot -
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I’m begging you to write essays -
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Why "Just Delete Social Media" Doesn't Work -
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I Tried Living As A 1950's Man for a Week, Here's What Happened -
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the screenification of everyday life is doing immeasurable damage to society -
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I Tried Living As A 1980's Man For A Week, Here's What Happened -
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How to Get Rid of Your Smartphone Without Missing It -
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The Analog Lie: 5 Ways this ‘Slow Living’ Trend Became Overconsumption -
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My Top 5 Digital Minimalist Tools for 2026 -
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tiktok’s ‘analog bag’ & the obsession with pretending to be offline -
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get off the internet, it's destroying your identity. -
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the type-A guide to designing a personal curriculum -
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the "analog movement" is taking over in 2026... is it just another form of consumerism? -
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The Subscription Economy: Why Gen Z Is So Poor -
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This saved my relationship with music -
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Are Audiobooks REALLY Reading? -
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create more than you consume -
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Writing By Hand Matters! Benefits (& History) of Penmanship -
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How to Prep for a No Phone Summer 🏖️ My Single Purpose Devices -
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Why Are People Buying iPods Again? -
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Modern Technology Has Become Unusable (And It's Making Our Lives Harder...) -
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How to End your Phone Addiction (Social Media Detox Protocol) -
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The Renaissance Man: an Antidote to Self-Improvement -
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i read 20 books in a month to cure my stupidity -
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Why You Must Read Classics (and how to start). -
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STOP devaluing the arts and humanities -
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my child self was yearning for physical media -
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How to Use Technology WITHOUT the Addiction (iPod Week 4) -
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The "Going Analog" Trend -
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Why I Decentralized My Smartphone -
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The Learned Helplessness Epidemic Is Out of Control... -
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Modern Day Technology Has Become USELESS... -
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how i’m using my apple ibook g3 in 2026 -
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AI "Assistants" are ABSOLUTELY Useless -
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How to Start Reading Again -
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I Dumb-i-fied my iPhone and Got My Life Back (iPod Week 3) -
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why big tech doesn't want you sleeping -
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Tech Withdrawal is The New Childhood Crisis -
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The New Social Currency is... Being Offline? | Digital Detox Core -
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They’re stealing our sleep and getting rich from it -
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Self-Education: How to Build a Personal Curriculum -
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teenagers don’t exist anymore (youth culture and third spaces) -
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TikTok Is RUINING Reading, Coloring & Every Hobby It Touches -
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an analog life 📷 📰 ✍🏼 tips for living your best offline life & saving your creativity -
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teachers don’t want to deal with gen alpha anymore -
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Why Gen Z Misses a Time They Never Knew -
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I Tried Living As A 1990's Man For A Week, Here's What Happened -
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annotating books will end your doomscrolling 📜 -
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How (and why) To Get Offline Right Now -
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Why Did the Future Look Cooler in the 2000s? -
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going analog gave me my mind back *it really is the damn phone* -
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Why is Physical Media Back? -
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how to build a personal curriculum 📓🖋️ step-by-step guide, tips & resources, notion tracker template -
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when being offline becomes a luxury -
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The Brainrot Apocalypse (a DIY survival guide) -
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How to Analyze Books like a Renaissance Scholar -
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Gen alpha can’t read, but its okay because we have AI now 🙃 -
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finding the RAREST and most OBSCURE handhelds I own🕹️ -
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why do people want to go back to 2014 so bad? -
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social media isn’t fun anymore. -
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the tiktok analog bag -
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How to Create a Personal Curriculum 101 🎓 My First Term of Self-Directed Learning -
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Why You Can’t Stop Scrolling (End-Stage Screen Addiction) -
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📵 I Went Screen Free for 7 Days | The Ultimate Analogue Lifestyle 🌿 -
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I hate my phone so I got rid of it -
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dumb phones: is tiktok trying to buy its way out of phone addiction? -
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Doomscrolling is the New Cigarettes -
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I Replaced Doomscrolling With My 3DS -
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I used a dumbphone for an entire year. Here's what happened. -
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The Internet Is Rewriting Your Personality -
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Tiktok's "Analog Bags" Are Supposed to Save Us From Our Phones... But Are They? -
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Forget the Analog Bag, I Made My Home More Analog Instead -
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motherhood sucks when you are always on your phone -
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Doomscrolling: The Digital Pacifier Turning Us All Into Losers -
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7 Dopamine Habits That Saved Me From Brain Rot -
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How to actually get smarter (again) -
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You’re choosing comfort over the life you want -
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so we're collectively yearning for offline...online? (of course we are) - analog trend deepdive -
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The Strategy to Save You From Infinite Scrolling -
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Doctor Explains: How to Train Your Brain to Crave Doing Hard Things -
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How to Become Addicted to Being OFF Your Phone -
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You don't know yourself as well as you think. -
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The political power of whimsy (absurdism, dadaism & imagination) -
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I tried all the "best" dumbphones (so you don't have to). -
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Gen Alpha Can't Read And It's Worse Than You Think -
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Gen Alpha Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are TERRIFIED... -
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Gen Alpha's Childhood Is REALLY Depressing... -
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How To Become Dangerously Self-Educated (complete plan) -
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Algorithms Manipulate You. Make Your Own Instead. -
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Gen Alpha Don't Want To Be "iPad Kids" Anymore… -
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DEEP FOCUS: how to do more of what matters -
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I Tried A 100 Hour Dopamine Detox, It Fixed My Brain -
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I Spent 7 Days In Silence, Here's What I Heard -
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I Tried the World's Simplest Productivity Trick (it worked) -
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The Loss of Cognitive Stillness, and How To Get It Back -
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Your phone addiction is keeping you from achieving flow state | Arthur Brooks -
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I replaced scrolling with something better