04/05/2018,

Yesterday I bumped into this article about designing the old Mac OS^[1], it compares the direction recent design decisions have taken today, maximizing the potential for distraction and addiction to profit from advertising and selling data^[2].

What I liked most is that there seems to be becoming a trend configure the cellphone's screen to grayscale^[3] in order to filter out all those glittering design, like thoses from slot machines.

I set^[4] mine in grayscale yesterday. It looks very light and clean, and somehow calmer, I'm excited about how the next few weeks will go.

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[1] Using The Old Mac OS Is Pure Zen. The early Mac OS makes our current phones and laptops look like the slot machines they are. Written by Mark Wilson. 5'
[2] You Will Wish You Watched This Before You Started Using Social Media | The Twisted Truth. Video by Absolute Motivation. 13'
[3] Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse Phone? Written by Nellie Bowles. 6'
[4] Change Your Screen to Grayscale to Combat Phone Addiction. Written by Melissa Kirsch. 2'