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?
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
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?
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
- 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
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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