After realizing the iPhone was good for some things (ie, paying bills, reducing paper mail with PaperKarma), but terrible at maintaining focus, I first switched to a Punkt phone. However, finding that was unreliable with AT&T and lacked navigation capabilities, I switched to a Nokia 2780 flip phone. Call quality, texting, camera capabilities, podcasts, and Google Maps are all there. Within two weeks, something strange happened. I found myself able to sit through a magazine in a sitting. I was able to read a chapter of a book. I fell asleep reading books. Truly, these devices have a place, but we know deep down they are a net negative. So now I keep my iPhone on WiFi, but powered down, and use it for some things, but not everything. I download my news and books onto an offline Kindle and read with the device faintly glowing suspended over my head on a phone stand and connected to a page turner. Fall asleep this way and it is not difficult to read multiple books each week.

I got my attention back, and you can too.