Opinion | I Gave Up My Smartphone for a Dumbphone. You Can, Too.

“Imagine looking back over your life and watching ten years’ worth of footage: you at various ages holding a smartphone, scrolling, rapt, pacified, oblivious to your surroundings, to all the things you are choosing not to do, to all the sides of yourself you don’t know because you’ve surrendered to your smartphone the time it would take to discover... See more

A decade ago, you paid for a smartphone to get 24/7 access to a world that, while demanding of your attention and full of advertising, was made up of a greater share of pleasurable, novel, or at least elective stuff: social media; entertainment; communication with friends; a bit of freedom from your desk at work, if you wanted it. (It provided valu... See more