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PLUS: Your Phone is Stealing Your Focus, Bitcoin Acceptance, AI Siri
vansh batra
January 10, 2024
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Hey curious mind,
This Saturday’s dose to become smarter in 5 minutes:
The AI Growth Tactic: Free Alternatives to Top Tools in Your Tech Stack
The Growth Insight: Your Phone is Stealing Your Focus
What’s Up with Tech: Bitcoin Acceptance, AI Siri
Tools to Unlock Your Peak Potential
The AI Growth Tactic 🖥️
Free Alternatives to Top Tools in Your Tech Stack
Why spend $$ on tools that might have a free alternative.
These are some of the best tools you can use for FREE to 10x your revenue + boost your productivity:
Here’s the list:
Photoshop ➡ GIMP and Photopea
Adobe Premiere Pro ➡ DaVinci Resolve and Capcut
MailChimp ➡ Moosend and Gumroad
Canva Pro ➡ Adobe Express
Grammarly Pro ➡ Hemingway app online
FontSelf Maker ➡ FontSpace
Anyword ➡ Bertha AI
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The Growth Insight 🌱
Your Phone is Stealing Your Focus
That little device promises the world yet robs us of so much.
In 2000, the average human attention span was 12 seconds. By 2015 it shrunk to 8 seconds.
It’s no joke – constant digital distraction is rewiring our brains.
But we can course correct. Setting healthy boundaries, both for ourselves and our kids, helps dial down the disturbance.
Specific tips that may help you reclaim your time:
Greyscale your phone - With no colors to grab your attention, the glitzy apps become infinitely less appealing.
Delete social media apps - Access apps through browsers only. The extra few clicks creates just enough friction.
Try dumb phones - The new ones have 4G, maps etc. but no addictive apps or endless scrolling.
No phone Sundays - Pick one day for the whole household to go device free. Play board games, visit neighbors, cook lavish meals with the reclaimed time.
Collect phones before dinner - Anyone who touches their phone does the dishes! A deterring incentive if there ever was one.
Batch digital tasks together - Checking apps? Do it back to back to avoid 12 distraction cycles.
Focus music when working - Movie soundtracks enhance concentration when struggling with distraction.
It’s not about demonizing devices.
It’s about understanding their pull and creating space beyond them.
What’s Up with Tech? 🌐
Tools to Unlock Your Peak Potential 🛠️
💰 Mezzi- Minimize your tax expenses effortlessly
📰 Brief- Get a custom AI-curated news digest
📄 MagicDocs- Streamline your document management with AI
💻 Postwise- Craft viral Tweets in seconds
Meme Bytes 😂
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Until next time!
Vansh
