"Personally, I'm trying to cultivate more unmediated experiences as much as possible."

Do you mind sharing what strategies you've found useful in this regard and what hasn't worked well?

Sure. Things with various degrees of success:

* meditation - IMO this gets me close to a headspace where I want to seek out more unmediated things

* practicing musical instruments

* phone calls with people instead of texting

* choosing the mundane versions of errands when time permits (grocery shopping in person instead of ordering via app and picking it up). There's a certain solace in the simplicity of mundane tasks that I need.

Less successful:

* getting outside more. This is pure inertia.

* quitting social media. BlueSky helps here by being much lower volume.