For one week I documented every activity that I did each day. I did this in efforts to understand better how I was using my time. Whenever I’m on my phone, I feel like time moves at hyperspeed and it’s easy for me to lose track of how long I’ve been using it. It’s like the casino effect. There’s no windows on my phone!

The author took its readers on a quest to quit social media, keeping their phone in the hand at all times, and ultimately deleting the most addicting app on their phone.

I’m writing this because my screen time has gone way up and I’m feeling burned out. I write this as a hypocrite who uses AI more than he should and chooses screen time over forest time far too often. But so many of my conversations with friends around social media are how to distance ourselves from it while still getting the things we love:... See more