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Re: ditch phone/unbreak brain

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On 2019-03-15, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> Great narrative of a problem:
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/business/cell-phone-addiction.html
>
> //--clip
>
> 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
> particular device, 

Perhaps it's an age-related thing? I have a smartphone, but rarely
look at it, never when I'm at home, and frequently forget to take it
with me when I go out. It also does not come into the bedroom at
night - it lives on my desk on the charger.


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ditch phone/unbreak brain RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-15 15:04 -0400
  Re: ditch phone/unbreak brain Batchman <batchman@dosville.foo> - 2019-03-15 20:18 +0000
  Re: ditch phone/unbreak brain ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-03-15 17:34 -0500
    Re: ditch phone/unbreak brain kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-15 20:55 -0400
  Re: ditch phone/unbreak brain Caecilius <nospam@spamless.invalid> - 2019-03-16 08:47 +0000
  Re: ditch phone/unbreak brain Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-16 10:37 +0000
  Re: ditch phone/unbreak brain Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-03-16 10:54 +0000

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