How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan

by Catherine Price

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail: the more I used my phone to navigate my life, the less capable I felt of navigating life without my phone.

Engagement is sometimes referred to as “the currency of the attention economy,” and advertisers are willing to spend a lot of money for it.

our phones (and, for that matter, the internet) satisfy another evolutionary quirk: our desire for information.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE WORSE OUR FOCUS gets, the more valuable we become.

Focus isn’t profitable. Distraction is.

creativity is often sparked by boredom, which is another mental state that our phones are great at helping us avoid.