I consume less than an hour of digital media a day. ‘Cheat days’ never helped me cut screen time, but ‘NPC hours’ did.

It feels like everyone wants to scroll less, and every influencer has a bag of tricks to “make it easy.” If I have one trick to offer, it’s to stop relying on tricks and thinking that this should be easy at all.

Nearly a decade of struggling to curb my digital addiction has taught me that real transformation requires a substantial lifestyle change.

After years of trial and error, I’ve managed to cut my own digital-media use to less than an hour a day for more than six months.

For me, digital media means internet-based content I consume for leisure: audio and video streaming, social media, articles, ebooks, podcasts, and even casual browsing. I…

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