Daily(ish)

I talk about feeling a growing desire to take a short break from digital life. While I usually take an intentional app break around Lent, this fall weekend feels like the right time due to a mix of family circumstances and the chance to enjoy early autumn in Saskatchewan before winter makes getting outside harder.

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Topics:
00:00 Welcome to Daily-ish
00:13 Why I Need a Break
01:09 What I Will Still Use
01:26 Avoiding the Info Firehose
01:57 Recording Ahead of Time
02:14 Books for the Weekend
02:50 Enjoying Fall Outdoors
03:16 Wrap Up and Subscribe

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Chris
I edit podcasts so you don't have to. I live in Saskatchewan so you don't have to?

What is Daily(ish)?

Challenging myself to record a podcast episode a day for my 50th year on this planet.

Hello and welcome to Daily-ish
for September 18th, 2026.

I'm recording an episode every day
for this, my 50th year on the planet

I've been feeling this, like, need, desire
to take a bit of a break from all the

digital things, not just social media, but
just stuff digitally, 'cause it's, it is

my job and it's my work and I really enjoy
it and I have a hard time not wanting to

be into it, even if I don't get exposed
to all the toxic side of it as much all

the time or let myself get exposed to the
toxic sides of it as much all the time.

But I love creating
the newsletter I write.

I love creating this podcast.

I love working in the, with
the clients I work with, as I

referenced in the previous episode.

And normally every year around, uh,
when Lent hits in the beginning of

the new year, I take an intentional
break from some apps or all apps

and do that for a longer term.

But feels like the time is right,
something about this fall, something

about just this weekend, there's a
combination of things happening around in

our family and stuff that make for a good
reason to take a bit of a break as well.

And so Not that I'll leave
my phone behind necessarily.

I'm gonna take pictures with my phone
and write notes and journal and things

like that, that I use on my phone.

Play some puzzles.

I like to do the Wordle, and there's
some, uh, the emoji game and,

uh, mini crossword on Apple News.

But yeah, try to disconnect from the fire
hose of information that, um, I let myself

sort of use as a digital water cooler
while I'm working, and then inevitably

bleeds over into normal life as well,
of course, 'cause once you've posted

something, and then you're waiting to
see if people reply or like it or share

it or whatever, and it kind of just,
yeah, has a way of spinning into more

and more if you don't manage it better

So not some big proclamation, virtue
signal, whatever kind of thing, but just

a thing I'm planning to do this weekend.

As a result, obviously, I'm recording
some of these episodes in advance so

that I don't get drawn into sitting
at my computer recording stuff and

then also just like checking, falling
into old habits, checking threads or

checking Blue Sky while I'm waiting
for, uh, files to upload or whatever

I'm still working my way through Brandon
Sanderson's, uh, I for- Stormbearer,

S- I don't know, Lightbringer.

I can't remember what
the series is called.

I'm on the fourth book, I think.

I can't remember.

It all kind of bleeds together.

But anyways, uh, I got
that book on the go.

I've got the Dungeon Crawler Carl
audiobook on the go, And a new book I got

for my birthday from, uh, I think from
my parents maybe, and The Tears of Things

by Richard Rohr, theological sort of book
on the age of, in this age of outrage

So lots of stuff to keep me busy, and,
uh, it's supposed to be a nice weekend

for fall anyways here in Saskatchewan.

And I kind of like the idea of, uh, once
winter hits, it's kinda like hunker down,

and yeah, there isn't as much or it's not
as easy to get outside, that's for sure.

And so then it feels like being
lazy on your phone, whatever,

is kinda natural almost.

And so taking advantage of these
opportunities to get out for a

walk or whatever and get outside,
fresh air while we still can before

it starts to be able to kill us.

Not quite that dramatic, but All right,
hope you're having a good Friday, and as

always, feel free to reply to this post
on social media, although these ones

probably won't get posted everywhere.

Like I said, if I'm not on my
phone, it's hard to post about it.

Or you can email me at
chris.enns@gmail.com.

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Have a great day.

Bye.