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How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

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How many hours per day can you stare at your phone?

How many hours per day can you stare at your phone?

Eight? Four? Twenty? One? Here’s the truth: Screen time doesn’t matter.

1. It’s not about how much. It’s about whether your phone is a needy, attention-sucking vampire.

2. That’s why the main metric tracked by screen time apps is deceptive: ten minutes of shooting crack cocaine intravenously are still ten minutes of shooting crack cocaine intravenously.

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But That's The Trick To Keep You Inside The Phone

But That's The Trick To Keep You Inside The Phone

1. Your phone trying to cop around how much you use your devices is like a booze maker helping you track how much booze you should drink.

2. Because they want to keep you alive: you are the consumer after all, and you must be around to consume.

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Is your phone a helpful assistant or a demanding boss?

Is your phone a helpful assistant or a demanding boss?

When it helps you to check in on your partner, to get directions, or to edit photos professionally, time doesn’t matter as much—does it?

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Better Ways To Evaluate Quality, Not Quantity, Of Screen Time

Better Ways To Evaluate Quality, Not Quantity, Of Screen Time

  • Does this app do its job and then politely step aside?
  • Does it linger in your brain like an awkward party guest at 2:30 A.M. after everyone else already left?
  • Did I summon this app, or did it summon me via notifications?

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Think For Yourself

Think For Yourself

Go on, spend 4 hours on an app. Just make sure you decided to—and that you feel those 4 hours are life well spent.

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