Hello to you and happy birthday to four superstars!
If you could go to one of their birthday parties, who would it be?
Trevor Noah, Olivia Rodrigo (can she even drink yet??), Charles Barkley, or Rihanna?
All four of those celebs crank out more content in a year than your great-grandfather consumed in his lifetime.
It’s overwhelming — all the options of things to read, watch, and listen to these days. Paw Paw just had the Old Farmer’s Almanac.
Lent is an invitation to get off the hamster wheel. To fast so you can slow down. To shed meaningless weight so you can properly order your loves.
I’m trying to figure out how to do this with content. Here are two tools helping me.
Pocket for saving and storing content
Do you ever come across interesting content that you don’t have time for at the moment but you want to eventually check out?
Like this 17-minute read: His Best Friend Was a 250-Pound Warthog. One Day it Decided to Kill Him.
Pocket helps you save digital content so you can forget about it now and come back to it later. It’s your pocket for storing digital content.
Here’s what my Pocket looks like right now.
With two clicks, you can easily save any content on your phone — like this 👇
And you can add an extension to your desktop that allows one-click saves.
Pocket is the most simple solution I’ve found for keeping an organized curation of digital content.
UnRoll Me for unsubscribing from emails
If you ever take the step of getting off social media, you won’t immediately find yourself using your restored time with the wisdom of Gandalf.
Your thumbs will have scrolling withdrawal.
You’ll know you’ve hit a low when you peruse Venmo out of curiosity rather than practicality. Although, it is an accurate tool for predicting relationships. I see y’all going Dutch 👀
Email is where I log the most scrolling miles. I treat newsletters like you treat Costco samples: if it’s free, it’s for me.
Years later, my email looks like this 👇
UnRoll Me is making it easy for me to take control of my newsletter obsession. It helps me shed content that’s not bringing meaningful value to my life.
You’ll be able to see all the emails you’re subscribed to — it’ll scare you. And then you can unsubscribe from them with one click — it’ll free you.
Technically, you aren’t unsubscribing from them. The app works by labeling the emails and redirecting them into a hidden folder.
UnRoll Me is like my rehab for my newsletter overdose. Stay digitally healthy, friends — just don’t unsubscribe from Twosday to do it.
✌️
— Luke
P.S. Here’s my favorite content from the past week.
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