A harm-reduction guide to using your phone less
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A harm-reduction guide to using your phone less
To simplify matters, when scheduling Internet use after work, you can allow time-sensitive communication into your offline blocks (e.g., texting with a friend to agree on where you’ll meet for dinner), as well as time-sensitive information retrieval (e.g., looking up the location of the restaurant on your phone). Outside of these pragmatic exceptio
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techniques. I put my phone in the other room and disconnected my WiFi while I was writing on the computer.
Marc Milstein • The Age-Proof Brain
Do not bring your cell phone or your tablet 24 hours a day.
Brian Douglas • The 4-Hour Handbook: Learn Proven Techniques to Hacking Your Life Today (4-hour workweek, 4-hour body, 4-hour chef, 4-hour work, 4-hour workweek in books)
Whenever possible, I leave my phone in a different room until lunch. When it’s right next to me, I’ll check it all morning for no reason at all. But when it is in another room, I rarely think about it. And the friction is high enough that I won’t go get it without a reason. As a result, I get three to four hours each morning when I can work without
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