Danny Suk @dadbutdifferent

Your eyes don’t see this. Your camera does. LEDs may be efficient, but that doesn’t mean the light is steady. We optimized the bulb for efficiency. Did we stop to ask what kind of light we created? #LED

Three kids. No conventional iPads. Not because of the cartoons. Because I've started questioning the LIGHT coming from the screen. @DrJackKruse got me asking different questions. Popular ≠ harmless. Convenient ≠ healthy. NORMAL IS THE TRAP.

My chewing gum grows on trees. It's called mastic gum. People have chewed this natural resin for thousands of years. I've been chewing it for 6+ months. Makes you wonder what else we've forgotten. 🌳

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They made LEDs look like incandescent bulbs. Same clear glass. Same “filament” look. Very different technology. Very different light. Most people never stop to ask what’s actually lighting their home. Same look. Very different light.

Most people wake up before the sun and immediately turn on the sun. Before sunrise, I do the opposite: Glasses on. Overheads off. Red light. Then when the sun comes up, we get outside and let real morning light take over. Morning can look like morning.

Your body isn’t just chemistry. It’s electrical too. The Body Electric has me digging deeper into a question I can’t shake: If electrical signals matter inside the body, why don’t we think more about the environment around it?

Airplane Mode. No Wi-Fi. Still online. Ethernet straight into the phone. Wireless became the default. It was never the only option.

Before sunrise, my house looked like a cockpit. Tiny LEDs everywhere. The first light of the day should come from the sun, not electronics.

I’m curious — what’s one “normal” thing you’ve started questioning or doing differently in your own home?

Maybe I overthink some things. “Everybody does it” isn’t a good enough reason. I keep coming back to one question: Is this actually good for us? What’s something you always thought was normal… until you started questioning it?

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We stopped using Febreze years ago. Turns out our fabric spray takes ~1 minute, costs almost nothing, and has 3 ingredients. Sometimes “normal” is just what we stopped questioning. DM SPRAY for the recipe.

Same sun. Different signal. Morning light. Evening light. Bare feet on the ground. Your biology reads the environment long before you consciously think about it. Modern life flattened the signal.

I don’t usually carry my phone in my pocket anymore. Apple’s RF Exposure info discusses body-worn testing with separation. If distance is easy to create, create it. Normal is the trap.

These aren’t just sunglasses. They’re light blockers. Your eyes are constantly reading light and sending that information to your brain. Maybe blocking the sun every time we step outside isn’t “protection.” Maybe it’s disconnection.

Bright LEDs at night? I’m minimizing them. Now I travel with red bulbs and swap out what I can. Two bulbs. Two minutes. Completely different environment.

This is why I started questioning AirPods in the first place. They’re not just earbuds. They’re wireless transmitters sitting in your ears. instagram.com/reel/DZdBp6qM0…

Interesting comparison: AirPods vs. wired earbuds vs. air tubes. Exactly the kind of test I wanted to see. instagram.com/reel/Db2f9lVBK…

We put our router in a cage. Not to kill the internet. To use less wireless signal while keeping the connection. Our rule: Turn it off when you don’t need it. Wire what you can. Reduce what’s left. A signal doesn’t need to reach everywhere just because it can.