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#008: Being Online Is Hard— I Tried Everything: 3 Habits That Actually Worked

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Log Out is back. Season two kicks off with a solo episode:

Siara shares her personal tech wellness lessons learned over the past year, emphasizing the challenges of managing digital wellness and practical habits to improve it. She discusses the influence of big tech, the importance of boundaries, and actionable strategies for data privacy and mental health.

Key Takeaways:

  • Screen time struggles aren't a personal failure. They're the result of deliberate design choices by big tech.

  • Keeping your phone out of the bedroom protects your sleep and sets the tone for your day.

  • Defaulting to "no" on data requests is one of the simplest ways to start reclaiming your privacy.

  • Your data is valuable. Treat every request for it like a transaction.

  • News anxiety is often about format and framing, not the news itself. Neutral sources help.

  • Pasting terms and conditions into AI is a quick way to know what you're actually agreeing to.

Season 1 Guest’s Books 

Unbiased News Sources:

Fact Check: Claim 1: Bedtime smartphone use is associated with poor sleep quality— TRUE 

Source: Kumar et al. (2025), Sleep Research — systematic review of studies 2014–2024

Claim 2:  Reducing phone use at night improves sleep duration and quality— TRUE 

Source: Chang et al. (2020), PLOS ONE — randomized trial, avoiding phone 30 min before bed for 4 weeks improved sleep latency, duration, and quality

Claim 3: Data become more valuable than oil in 2012— SLIGHTLY FALSE. 

CORRECTION: Data became more valuable than oil in 2017.Source: The Economist, "The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data" (May 6, 2017)


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