This tracks for me. I have deleted TikTok and Instagram but now I find myself browsing X short videos!! Addiction is a crazy thing.

I have a daily 30 minute one way commute. I usually put on a YouTube video about startup or tech talk. But I find myself forgetting it all the day after. I am curious how you go about remembering the content without being able to take notes while driving.

Information for its own sake to obtain doesn't have any lasting effect, it makes sense why you forget. Try to intake the information and have it cue a relation to your life, have it spark some internal thought. I'm struggling to articulate this, I've always been "a thinker", just think about things all day. I rarely finish books because whatever I read I think about it for so long.

It's my own personal reflection on information, knowledge, and learning, I hesitated to write this comment but I did at the chance it helps.

Information is basically a commodity these days. The leverage is in how the info informs your thoughts.

I have YouTube.com and X.com IP blocked on this computer for exactly that reason.

Because I noticed I have zero self-control with the short-term video format. So now I don't touch it and consider it similar to cigarettes.

You don't. This is where taking public transport to work shines.

are you watching talks while driving?

One thing I've tried recently, was that going no-nothing while driving: so no music, radio, nothing, just me and my thoughts.

It's been immensely pleasurable, like I've rediscovered myself.

But I still have an issue with finding a good long form video to watch while washing up, or shorts while I'm waiting for CI to finish at work, etc. I need to find something else to do.

something along the lines of "you can't remove an addiction habit, you can only replace it"