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[Arly @arlythebuilder]

Ahero fixes this

[sui @birdabo]

PewDiePie, one of the biggest YouTubers in the world just dropped an important video.

he claims the algorithm is destroying your brain.

a guy once beloved by the algo that made him a millionaire is now going against it.

“the key is intent. if you go around your life not making your own choices, then who the heck are you?”

his secret fix?
> add friction to dopamine apps
> unfollow everyone
> kill reels (important)
> self host everything.
> block at DNS level.

this is a wake up call. no more autopilot scrolling. you either choose what goes in your brain or the algorithm chooses for you.

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

How to actually focus in 2026

- Delete every attention blackhole app on your phone (tiktok, insta, youtube)

- Use Ahero to block distractions on your computer and phone. Lock these settings.

- Start a deep work session (at least 90min) with a clear task.

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

Codex automation where it pulls tickets from Linear and works on them.

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

never been easier to build something meaningful
never been easier to get distracted

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

Trying to solve this with Ahero. A tool made to help you focus.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I did a 40 hr and then a 70 hr social media fast.
I’ve come to believe that social media is pollution. 

Not a vice or guilty pleasure.
It’s closer to water toxins, air pollution and microplastics.

Social media has been on my mind because I can feel how bad it is for me. For my health and agency. I am a professional rejuvenation athlete. For five years, I’ve engineered my life around biological renewal and the elimination of decay. After hundreds of experiments across food, sleep, exercise, therapies, and toxins, I’ve developed both data and intuition about what strengthens or degrades my system.

I can viscerally feel that social media is bad for me.  It erodes my autonomy and increases cognitive entropy.
Like other toxins, it accumulates. You can’t unsee or unfeel what you’ve consumed. It settles into mental tissue like heavy metals, producing chronic low-grade inflammation.  Evidence suggests even after you stop scrolling, attentional fragmentation and emotional priming persist. Your thoughts begin to mirror the algorithm’s incentives. Independent cognition quietly erodes and you don’t notice the loss.

Time away and getting lost in deep focus is the only remedy.

When something erodes your agency, the rational response is elimination. The problem is, elimination isn’t realistic. “Just put the phone down” is as practical as telling someone in 19th century London to stop breathing coal smoke.

You need to know what’s happening in the world, be in touch with your friends and be part of the tribe.

That necessity is what allows companies to harvest your emotions, intellect and time for their profit. You are their raw material they exploit. Then in an ironic twist, the system gets you to exploit yourself by engineering an environment where it takes more effort to stop than to continue scrolling.  Pollution exposure by default.

What specifically makes social media toxic is that value and poison are inseparable by design.  You go to hear from friends and you leave an hour later absorbed in outrage that serves no biological interest of yours. The water is real. The lead is in the pipes.

The performance metrics (likes, views, etc.) bleed you of independent thought. They create quantified social proof, triggering ancient hierarchy reflexes. You no longer evaluate signal from noise; the engagement metrics do it for you.

Like all toxins, the damage is cumulative. We live inside the exposure long enough that it feels normal.  The 40 and 70 hour social media fasts did that for me. Gave me just enough separation to feel and diagnose the poison. The obviousness of it feels like when I went to India and saw their humanitarian crisis of air pollution which no one sees anymore.

So what do we do?

Neither platforms nor individuals are likely to change on their own. AI may be the countermeasure. An AI layer between you and the feed. Filtering rage, removing vanity metrics and translating sensationalism into calm, factual language. Preserving signal and eliminating noise.

I want social media to become a longevity intervention, not a longevity threat. I never want to see the raw feed. I want an AI agent to read it for me, strip the engagement metrics that hijack my judgment, filter the rage, and return only what I actually came for.

Every generation faces its pollutants. When cholera spread through London's water, the answer wasn't telling people to drink less. It was building filtration. The same logic applies here. Best next move is to design the filter to avoid being the raw material.

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

Start your morning by looking at your goals, vision, and things that inspire you

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

Just installed this. Great reminder!

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

Addiction is the default. A deep-work system is how you break free.

Ahero is that system.

[Ben Roy @benroy]

https://t.co/QhjuSYLlPc

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

tried everything from deleting apps, putting phone in a lockbox (effective), setting a password I don't know, and using Ahero to block apps

combining multiple efforts works best

also my phone got cracked while cycling so now my screen barely works

proud of my < 1hr screen time

[bri @br___ian]

Do you guys do any weird stuff to manage screen time? Noticing a lot of smart friends seem to have strange bespoke systems for dealing with phone time

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

Life hack: block distracting sites/apps from 10pm to 11am

Block schedules now live on Ahero 🧙‍♂️

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

who would you be if you weren't distracted?

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

deleting all social media extends it by 10 years - can confirm

[kanav @kanavtwt]

deleting instagram extends your lifespan by atleast 5 years

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

3 hours of scrolling is 18% of your waking life

[mayra rae 💐 @buneeriee]

this is how God must feel when he sees us scrolling on our phones

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

my fuel to keep building

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

@oichirag thank you !!

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

facebook is FREE but zuckerberg is the 3rd richest dude in the planet

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

show me your screen time and I’ll show you your future

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

New study in Greece: average time on TikTok is 2.4 hours daily

The most vulnerable age group is 18–19-year-olds, who spend over 2.7 hours a day on the app

55.7% of participants had symptoms of depression, and 31.5% had symptoms of excessive anxiety

https://t.co/EnD0pqSOEA

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

17 day streak of doing 3 hour of deep work

Not doing work is more work

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

finalizing images for Ahero badges

as you do more focus hours, the higher you climb

why not make deep work fun?

[Arly @arlythebuilder]

strava but for deep work
train your mind with Ahero