switching to a "dumb" phone made me feel pretty dang smart

When's the last time you watched something other than a screen for that long without checking your phone?

It’s wild how often we are lured into the phone to do one quick thing and then get stuck there forever. Smart phones are like one big ‘come for a quick tour of our timeshare and you get a nice weekend for free’ that end up with you buying the timeshare and living there fulltime (is this how timeshares work idk).

The only way

out, I believe, is to make big hard decisions that make all of the little ones for me.

Like switching your

phone. I can’t win against the iPhone but I can simply not play. And that’s powerful.

Attention is all we have. According to philosopher Simone Weil, it is sacred — the rarest form of generosity:

“Attention alone, that attention which is so full that the ‘I’ disappears, is required of me. I have to deprive all that I call ‘I’ of the light of my attention and turn it onto that which cannot be conceived.”