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Comment by cranekam | Hacker News Reader

> To eliminate that problem, I put my phone far away from my bed at night.

My wife and I recently started leaving our phones in another room overnight. It's a big improvement -- previously it was easy to mindlessly scroll through nonsense before sleep and again in the morning when waking up. Now we read and talk more. It's still easy to grab the phone and go back to bed in the morning but overall it has been a very positive change.

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I'm so glad I never picked up this habit.. my phone tends to last at least 5 days on a charge, with a few minutes of screen on time.

Still procrastinating too much on HN & IRC with a PC.

HN is a blessing and a curse. I've learnt a lot here, but there's also a ton of (attractive) noise.

I'll often just forget my phone in my home office, sometimes for an entire weekend. I've had people ask me if I was unhappy with them because they called and I didn't get back with them immediately.

I know it makes me an old fucker, but I'm genuinely sad when I go someplace where we have to wait and it's just a sea of people on their phone with little to no interaction amongst themselves.

Tell me about it. I'm trying to reduce the amount of time I spend on the thing (I turn off as many notification as possible, put timesucking apps out of easy reach, etc) but it still consumes much more time than I'd like. I despair when I see a crowd of people silently exercising their scrolling thumbs in complete ignorance of each other.

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