The problem is that with smartphones, email is no longer confined to the office. It comes with us—to the gym, to dinner, to bed. But there are more and more ingenious ways to fight back. Like the “phone stacking” game when friends meet for dinner—they put their phones in a stack in the middle of the table and the first one who checks his device before the bill comes has to pick up the check. Kimberly Brooks, HuffPost’s founding arts editor, plays another game at dinner—the “don’t take a picture of your meal” game. “Unless you’re an on-call doctor or food professional,” she says, “pulling out
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