Absolute lol Brick have given me a code : https://www.getbrick.app/ROSE90330

It may not get you any more of a discount that you can get yourselves (I haven't clicked it yet), and they may request that I take it down after listening to this episode. But hey ho. The show notes are looking professional this week.

Field Report of the dopamine detox experiment. I tested three “highly scientific” methods in my most dangerous scrolling window: 7–10pm after the girls are asleep.

What I tried:

• Night 1: full raw-dog detox (no phone, no TV, no music, no book… just vibes and existential dread)
• Night 2: reading instead (Kindle + a dangerously moorish fantasy romance)
• Night 3: TV without the phone (feat. the Bonnie Blue documentary and a sudden moral debate I wasn’t prepared for)

We also cover:

• why “doing nothing” is a rich man’s hobby
• the weird way scrolling has ruined reading
• why watching a whole film now feels like personal growth
• sex being transactional across human history (lightly… then not lightly)
• Flatmate’s Field Notes: my husband’s unhinged business analysis of Bonnie Blue
• Find of the Week: Brick (a physical gadget that blocks apps unless you walk to it)
• Fail of the Week: realising I’m not enjoying reading like I used to (rude)

If you tried a dopamine detox too, I want your results. And if you’ve used Brick, please report to the group chat (my DMs).

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This week I’ve saved a worrying number of reels about dopamine detoxes.

So naturally, I decided to make it everyone else’s problem too.

From raw-dogging flights (no phone, no music, no water, no joy) to promises that cutting out dopamine will magically fix motivation, laziness, and modern life in general — dopamine has officially entered its villain era.

In this episode, I’m not trying anything yet. I’m circling the idea, poking it, and asking some basic questions first, like:

• What actually is dopamine and why has it suddenly become the enemy?
• Are dopamine detoxes sensible… or just dry January for your phone?
• Is scrolling ruining our brains, or are we just terrible at stopping?
• Why can I listen to podcasts endlessly but can’t watch a full TV episode without grabbing my phone?
• And at what point does “self-control” turn into sitting on a plane staring at the flight map like a Victorian orphan?

I also dig into:

• Healthy vs unhelpful dopamine (effort vs passive flooding)
• Why modern life makes everything feel simultaneously overstimulating and boring
• How screen culture is quietly reshaping films, TV, and attention spans
• And whether completely removing stimulation actually helps… or just makes life grim

By the end, I set up this week’s experiment:

• One day of doing nothing (true detox, unfortunately)
• One day replacing scrolling with reading
• One day watching a full film without touching my phone (pray for me)

This is Field Notes — where I test modern self-improvement ideas in real life, outside of perfect conditions, and report back honestly on what actually happens.

🎧 Friday: I’ll be back with a Field Report on whether any of this helped, or whether I just became deeply annoying to live with.

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After launching the podcast and immediately developing a brief but intense sense of delusion, I realised I’d slightly abandoned the entire premise of the show. Instead of calmly testing a saved bit of advice and reporting back, I panicked, went semi-guru, and tried to convince everyone (including my family) that vision boards absolutely, definitely work.

This episode is me correcting course.

I talk about:

• my delusions of grandeur
• why outcome-based vision boards can feel motivating and then quietly ruin your life
• how “process pictures” are supposed to work in theory, and why they’re surprisingly hard when your goals involve screens, editing, or admin
• and the growing realisation that naming a podcast without Googling it first may have been… optimistic

We also establish two recurring Field Notes features:

• Fail of the Week (there were many)
• Find of the Week: if your perfume doesn't smell great, leave it for 4 years then come back to it

If you like self-improvement in theory but struggle with it in real life, you’re in the right place.

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• Podcast clips, experiments & visual chaos: @field.notes.pod

You can:

• follow / subscribe so you don’t lose it in your apps
• leave a review (even a short one, I will screenshot it for my lame folder)
• or send this to someone on the same wavelength

On Monday, I’m testing another widely saved piece of internet advice to see whether it actually survives contact with real life.

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