The Modern Necessity for Digital Self-Regulation

Lauren Reiff
The Shadow
Published in
7 min readAug 15, 2022

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Photo by Ben Sweet on Unsplash

As the 21st-century ripens and technological creep advances, we as modern citizens face new challenges. No longer plagued by the material primitivity of earlier ages, increasingly we are besieged by excess instead. Enter the rather cosmopolitan trend of dopamine fasting, the practice of temporarily abstaining from addictive digital products.

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Lauren Reiff
The Shadow

Writer of economics, psychology, and lots in between. laurennreiff@gmail.com / I moved! Find me here: laurenreiff.substack.com