What I Learned After a Month without Instagram

Foreword After my successful 12 day break from social media during the Holidays, I spent the first few months of 2019 in a complete state of messiness because of my thesis deadline and a couple of other issues. So my resolution to maintain social media free weekends basically didn’t happen. I was so anxious and…

Digital Minimalism (+ my Facebook story)

I've just finished reading Cal Newport's new book Digital Minimalism and I've really enjoyed it. I felt it more accessible than Deep Work (that I loved but found a bit boring in the beginning) and it provided me so much food for thought. It made me realize I'm on the right path (not quite there…

The Power of Unplugged Holidays

One of the most popular posts of 2018 here on the blog has been the one I've written back in March, The Power of Unplugged Weekends, where I shared my experience with staying away from social media during the weekend and how it was positively affecting my life. I'm proud to report that I managed…

Reflections on my lunch break and how I wasted my time on Instagram

I didn’t plan to write this post, actually, I'm supposed to be writing my thesis right now, but you know when you have something in mind and you can’t just ignore it and go ahead. I’ve never actually talked about it here, but my biggest goal is to finish my 150-pages thesis by the end…