I treat my phone like poison. I leave the house as much as possible without it. After I had a kid, people were like, “What if there's an emergency?” Every fucking person on Earth has a phone. I'll ask the person sitting eight inches away.

Once you are released from the grip of your phone, you have like eight extra hours in the day and reading... See more

On planes, I get a lot of reading done, probably because you don't have the internet.

One thing that came up over and over: the relentless, almost inescapable attention-zapping evil of the phone.