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Alternative method: Drink too much beer, accidentally break 1000 dollar iPhone, realize that you don’t want to pay another 1000, so you force yourself to go 6 months without a phone as punishment. Conclusion: it was inconvenient at first, but by the end it was pretty nice. Nowadays I just turn off all my notifications.

/disclaimer I didn’t read the article.

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Similar. I had no phone at all for over a year and then dirt cheap phones with limited internet access and other constraints.

I have no ability to relate to this endless stream of articles about how to mitigate this rampant and intractable problem. It's an alien concept that I would feel a prisoner of my phone and not in control of it.

I feel that my life is a giant Sine wave oscillating between learning and unlearning lessons. Haha I will not use my phone for large periods of time, then years later realize that I fell back into the trap, and begin taking steps to take back my life. This happens with health, hobbies, and various other aspects of my life all at different times. Fortunately, as I get older there seems to be some convergence. :)

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