What Four Hours a Day Is Actually Costing You

What Four Hours a Day Is Actually Costing You

Most adults now spend over four hours a day on their smartphones. It doesn't feel like four hours, because it arrives in fragments — a minute here, twelve minutes there, the unexplained half-hour before bed.The...
The Summer You Actually Remember

The Summer You Actually Remember

Every summer, most of us have a version of the same experience somewhere around week three: you scroll through the photos you've taken, and there are hundreds of them, and somehow you don't quite remember...
Your Phone Doesn't Know It's Summer (But You Should)

Your Phone Doesn't Know It's Summer (But You Should)

Summer has a way of doing something your commute, your meetings, and your alarm clock usually handle for you: it removes all the things that accidentally pull you away from your phone. During the rest...
When It's Raining and Everyone Is on Their Phones

When It's Raining and Everyone Is on Their Phones

No parenting article about summer holidays tells you what to do on the rainy Tuesday in week two when the kids have been inside since yesterday.  Everyone is on their phones and you can't quite...
The Holiday Phone Rules That Don't Start Fights

The Holiday Phone Rules That Don't Start Fights

Every family has a version of The Holiday Phone Argument. The structure is always the same: someone says something, someone responds, and suddenly you're fighting about something that isn't really about the phone at all.What's...
Digital Minimalism: 3 Best Practices to Incorporate It in Your Life

Digital Minimalism: 3 Best Practices to Incorporate It in Your Life

Digital clutter is a real problem, and it’s something that affects most of us in our daily lives. As most of us work in tech-heavy industries, we understand how important it is to keep your...
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The Reason You Scroll More on Holiday (And How to Use That Information)

You almost certainly scroll more on holiday than you do at home. Not because you like your phone more in warm weather, but because the invisible structure that usually competes for your attention isn't there...