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A Substack commentary by Ed West on declining literacy and the rise of 'doomscrolling,' reviewing James Marriott's new book 'The New Dark Ages' and expressing alarm over children's media diets and the shift away from reading toward digital consumption.
A study published in Computers in Human Behavior finds that doomscrolling at work leads to rumination and lower work engagement, with stronger effects among neurotic individuals.
The author describes building an iOS app called VineWall that throttles internet speed for specific apps to reduce doomscrolling by making video and image loading slower and poorer quality, thus making the content less appealing.