Foundational post for the 369-10 method.
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Now definitely WITH the understanding that this thing needs testing,
and has not been submitted to any kind of pressure,
I do feel celebratory because the laboratory version of my new offline lifestyle, WORKS.

I’ve been diligently searching for a way to purge my online addiction and have been reporting my progress in this series since May 2025.

The name Paperbag Files is inspired by the paperbag cover of the dvd of the movie Fight Club.
A movie which made a brave attempt to beat us out of excessive media consumption in 1999.
Without understanding we would one day kill for that turn of the century calm of an offline world without pesky digital devices with whom we have amalgamated to cyborg levels.
We are not just using devices, we no longer know who we are without them.

And so the quest began, and the good news definitely is:
I am healed.
Done.
And like that other 1999 movie The Matrix that predicted we would one day live inside a digital world, I can see the glitches coming and the rough bleak reality seeping through.
And loving it not because of its beauty, but because it is real.

Just like the rebels in the Matrix have to feed themselves with awful food and dress their real-life bodies still marked by digital sockets, in dull greyish green clothing;
Things are not pretty here.
And boy, does the future look bleak.
Intensely lonely.

I hope to find other offline rebels.
But for now this will do.

I am not (yet?) able to identify the underlying mindset shift, that flipped me from trying to go offline (and largely failing), to thriving.

But what I can do, is to tell you how I have made it actionable.

I call the method:
369-10

I turn off my phone for 3 hours;
From 6PM to 9PM.
And again at 10PM for the night.
(leaving phone in the hall)

That’s it.

So although I try to find as many hours during the day as I can, to turn my phone off, the core and non-negotiable ones are:
From 6 to 9.
And after 10PM

“You decide your own level of involvement!” Tyler Durden

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