DailyJim: A day without almost any internet

Hello everyone, welcome to another Daily Gym. This is the episode for Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024, and today it's very late, so I'm going to talk about a day with almost no internet. So today I was unable to get internet while I was in Istanbul. My phone wasn't working. I was able to have it in the morning on wi-fi, but then I left and went and had lunch with a friend, and then was traveling all around got to the airport took the plane it was about six hour flight down to kenya and uh, yeah no internet on the plane either i mean there were different options in the airports and, um on the plane but for some reason my phone wasn't working for any of them so yeah it was just really interesting to be offline for that long while traveling in a brand new city i have I've been to Istanbul once before, I think nine years ago, and it was also a less than 24-hour layover.

So, yeah, to go meet a friend in a city where I wasn't familiar at all.

Yeah, that was experience, but also just not know what's going on in the world for the day. I think even when I've been on retreats lately, Lately, I've still paid attention to what was going on in the world, checked Twitter, Hacker News, or some of these things. But, yeah, it's, I don't really know how I feel about it so far.

I'm quite exhausted. It's been a long travel, and this is not, it's been a long couple weeks.

So, as you can probably hear in my scratchy voice, I think I need to sleep so the other episodes have been 10 plus minutes last couple days so maybe this one will be three-ish minutes um so that you all can balance it out if you're listening to all five episodes in the week so four episodes in the week goodness um so yeah I think sometimes it feels nice to step away from the internet and sometimes it also gives anxiety to step away from the internet, it turns out that sometimes things make us feel both things at the same time. And it's okay to have mixed and competing feelings. I'd say not only is it okay, it's natural, it's human, it's constant, it's happening all the time. So on that note, I am grateful to record this. I'm also tired of recording, but grateful to record court and excited to sleep. And yeah, I'm almost purely excited to sleep. So I will talk to you all tomorrow. Ciao.