i’m Breaking Up With My iPhone

Enough with the Weapons of Mass Distraction

Apr 15, 2025

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“What we see today as the real world’s shortcomings--its withholding of easy and immediate amusements, its stretches of solitude and boredom, its friction and inefficiencies--are the very things that open the world’s possibilities to us.”

-Nicholas Carr, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

“I’m not suggesting that smartphones are…

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