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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

#17572 — ditch phone/unbreak brain

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
particular device, and hooking it to better things. Editors’ Picks Amy
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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.

[More from Kevin Roose: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
Electric Scooters.]

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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#17573

On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:04:42 -0400, RS Wood wrote:

> Great narrative of a problem:
> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/business/cell-phone-addiction.html
> 
Yes indeed, thanks for posting the link!

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#17575

I have no brain!


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, and hooking it to better things. Editors??? Picks Amy
> Schumer Doesn???t Care What You Think (That Much) What Does Misogyny Look
> Like? ???Billions,??? ???Succession??? and the Making of Wealth Porn



> 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.

> [More from Kevin Roose: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
> Electric Scooters.]

> 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.

> //--clip


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#17577

Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>I have no brain!

"I can't give you a brain... but.... I can give you a diploma."
   -- Oz

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#17579

On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:04:42 -0400, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
wrote:

>Great narrative of a problem:
>
>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/business/cell-phone-addiction.html

Thanks for posting that link.

When I was a teenager in the 1970s, many science fiction TV programmes
included telepathy which allowed instant communication at any time.  I
often wondered how society would change if this became possible.  I
never expected something as banal as facebook.

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#17580

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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                   then it's night once more."

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#17581

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
> Great narrative of a problem:
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/business/cell-phone-addiction.html

    My name is Kevin, and I have a phone problem.
    
    And if you’re anything like me — and the statistics suggest you
    probably are, at least where smartphones are concerned — you have
    one, too.

...but actually the statistics (that he cites) are:

    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.

So, er, the statistics suggest that he is something of an outlier and
that most of his readers are not like him, where smartphones are
concerned.

    Performative wellness is obnoxious, as is reflexive technophobia.

He got that right though.

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https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

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