Coaching practices for Algorithmic Feed Alternative

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I just consume whatever the feed decides to put in front of me
• I check the same feeds dozens of times a day, mostly out of reflex, and 90% of the time there’s nothing there
• I actually need this app for its real purpose, but the endless feed and the autoplay and the little red badges suck me into a black hole every time I open it
• I open the same feed without even deciding to, and an hour’s gone before I notice
• I open the feed “for a second” and surface twenty minutes later not even sure why I opened it

Practices that may help

1. Design a media diet with explicit inclusion criteria
   Specify in advance what media you will consume, from which sources, and for how long — rather than consuming whatever the algorithm serves.
   The Attention Economy: Reclaiming Your Focus from Systems Designed to Capture It
2. Designate 2-3 scheduled checking windows per day
   Check social and news feeds only during specific time-boxed windows — not on demand.
   Defending Your Attention in the Attention Economy
3. Strip out the attention-capturing features
   Keep the tool, remove the slot-machine parts: feeds, likes, autoplay, and notifications.
   Digital Minimalism, Made Practical
4. Tame the Infinity Pools
   Add friction to bottomless apps — news feeds, email, video — so they stop hijacking attention.
   Make Time, Made Practical
5. Restrict social media to scheduled daily access windows
   Limit social media to one or two daily slots rather than allowing it to run as a background tab.
   Notification Batching: Taking Back Control of Your Attention
6. Break the intermittent-reward loops
   Disrupt the unpredictable-payoff apps and feeds that train compulsive checking.
   Dopamine Detox, Honestly Explained
7. Deliberately explore the most unlikely combinations
   The combinations intuition skips are precisely the ones the method is designed to find.
   Morphological Analysis, Made Practical
8. Establish a no-argument rule in feedforward exchanges
   In structured feedforward exchanges, neither party evaluates or debates the suggestions — only listens and notes.
   Feedforward: Future-Focused Feedback That Actually Changes Behavior
9. Feedforward: Future-Focused Feedback That Actually Changes Behavior
   Feedforward, developed by executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, replaces backward-looking critique with forward-looking suggestions — asking "what ideas do you have for the future?" rather than "what did I do wrong?" The core claim is that people are more receptive to ideas about what they could do than to judgments about what they did. Evidence is primarily clinical and practitioner-based rather than from controlled trials.
10. Conduct a quarterly unfollow audit
    Every three months, unfollow or mute any account that consistently produces comparison, envy, or resentment.
    The 2-Hour Social Media Cap

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