💭 Phone

2023.10.03

As with many people, I've struggled a lot with phone addiction. I have been working on actively changing that.

My main change is how I view my phone: as a tool.

I do not keep entertainment apps on my phone. This specifically means I don't have social apps (mastodon, instagram, etc) or games (only exception is the NYT games app). These are my biggest time sucks on my phone. I don't want to turn on my phone to mindlessly do things for the sake of doing things.

I want to only pick up my phone for a purpose. This is why I am not including streaming apps as "entertainment". When I want to watch something, I use my phone as the tool for that. I also don't really watch much to begin with, so this may be less of an issue for me than others.

If I want to use Mastodon, Instagram, or play a game, I will do so with intentionality on a device I don't carry around with me - my computer. This is how it used to be before we all had a tiny computer in our pockets. Everything was a lot simpler, and a lot more intentional, not necessarily because we chose to, but because that was the nature of technology at the time. I miss that. While everyone else will still be in the ever-connected future, I can bring myself back to that time with changes like this.

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