Every minute spent tracking someone else’s progress is a minute you’re not making your own.

Monitoring what other people are achieving feels productive and produces nothing. The attention is real, the time is real, and at the end of it you know more about somebody else’s year while nothing has moved in yours. It also distorts the picture, since you are setting their published results against your own unedited daily experience. The cost is the hour and the mood afterward.

Notice which accounts leave you worse off and mute them for a month. Put the reclaimed time somewhere specific rather than leaving it loose. Checking weekly tells you everything checking hourly does.