Writing
A less addictive phone, without making it worse.
Why your phone pulls at you, why the usual fixes last about a week, and what to do instead.
- How to make your phone less addictive without making it worseGrayscale, deleted apps, screen time limits: most tips make your phone worse, so they don’t last. How to make it less addictive by making it better.
- Why you pick up your phone for one thing and end up scrollingYou unlock your phone to check the weather, and twenty minutes later you still don’t know the weather. Why it happens to everyone, and what helps.
- Why app blockers stop working after about a weekYou paid for the blocker, it worked for a few days, then you switched it off. That isn’t a willpower problem. Here’s what’s actually going on.
- Bought a dumbphone and went back to a smartphone? That wasn’t a failure.The dumbphone lasted until you needed maps, the bank app or the group chat. What that experiment actually taught you, and the middle ground people miss.