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Great narrative of a problem:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/business/cell-phone-addiction.html

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Instead, her program focuses on addressing the root causes of phone
addiction, including the emotional triggers that cause you to reach for
your phone in the first place. The point isn’t to get you off the
internet, or even off social media — you’re still allowed to use
Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms on a desktop or laptop,
and there’s no hard-and-fast time limit. It’s simply about unhooking
your brain from the harmful routines it has adopted around this
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When we started, I sent her my screen time statistics, which showed
that I had spent 5 hours and 37 minutes on my phone that day, and
picked it up 101 times — roughly twice as many as the average American.

“That is frankly insane and makes me want to die,” I wrote to her.

“I will admit that those numbers are a bit horrifying,” she replied.

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Catherine encouraged me to set up mental speed bumps so that I would be
forced to think for a second before engaging with my phone. I put a
rubber band around the device, for example, and changed my lock screen
to one that showed three questions to ask myself every time I unlocked
my phone: “What for? Why now? What else?”

For the rest of the week, I became acutely aware of the bizarre phone
habits I’d developed. I noticed that I reach for my phone every time I
brush my teeth or step outside the front door of my apartment building,
and that, for some pathological reason, I always check my email during
the three-second window between when I insert my credit card into a
chip reader at a store and when the card is accepted.

Mostly, I became aware of how profoundly uncomfortable I am with
stillness. For years, I’ve used my phone every time I’ve had a spare
moment in an elevator or a boring meeting. I listen to podcasts and
write emails on the subway. I watch YouTube videos while folding
laundry. I even use an app to pretend to meditate.

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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>

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ditch phone/unbreak brain RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-15 15:04 -0400
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