2024-11-20 back to a basic alarm clock

Bought the Braun BC03B analog alarm clock. It finally arrived today.

I decided it’s time to go back to the basics.

In a world in which I somehow ended up relying on my Apple Watch to wake me up, I realized I wanted to de-escalate technology a bit.

One interesting thing I realized was that in order to turn off the analog alarm clock in the morning, I actually have to press the OFF button. This means I have press that same button before I sleep to turn it on. I totally forgot the phone and watch make alarm setting so…automatic. Wow. In a way, I think our phones and smartwatches have made our alarm setting process a bit less disciplined. I suppose that’s a good thing - at least one will never forget. But I do wonder whether this really just shows how dependent on technology we have been.

If I can de-escalate the smartwatch alarm clock, I’m not really sure I’ll even want to use my smartwatch during sleep and during the day much at all…

This shall be an interesting first step.