About The Bullshit Tablet

What Is The Bullshit Tablet?

The Bullshit Tablet is a philosophy. It means taking all of your digital addictions and putting them on some other device, a cheap tablet, so to keep you connected to the digital world but force you to be deliberate with your engagement with it.

It's the realization that social media cleanses don't work because they're binary. You're either on or off. But the real world isn't binary. You need some social media. You just don't need it to be effortless.

The concept is simple: buy the cheapest, most basic tablet you can find. Move all your social media apps to it. Delete them from your phone. Now social media requires intention. You have to physically go to another device. You have to wait for it to load. You have to want it.

This method isn't about digital detox or app blockers or willpower. It's about designing your environment to support better habits. It's friction as a feature, not a bug.

Why Is It Called "The Bullshit Tablet"?

It started as an accident. There wasn't a deliberate attempt to try to brand something. It just became the shorthand way of describing the tablet that I was going to experiment putting my social media on and then it stuck.

How Did The Bullshit Tablet Come About?

I, like many people these days in their own capacities, was really bothered by how incesantly I was checking social media on my phone. To no particular ends - just as something to do in a moment of boredom or as a tick. I never liked the feeling and always knew that I needed to do something about it. I had an idea to put all my social media on a tablet and leave it somewhere else. The premise being that I was still connected to all of my social accounts but I was disconnecting myself from the impulse to constantly check them. I bought a 50 dollar Amazon Fire tablet, the cheapest tablet Amazon offered, put my Instagram account, my vice, on it and the rest was history.