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?

Is your phone a helpful assistant or a demanding boss?

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

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

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.

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

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.

Think For Yourself 

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.

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

Simple tips to help you get out of the digital rabbit hole to explore life around you!