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Smartphone Emancipation Part 1: Should I Burn My iPhone?

Redeeming Productivity

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Should I Get Rid of My Smartphone?

If being addicted to your smartphone is the most unproductive thing you can do, then there's this question of, should I get rid of it? Should I just completely ditch my phone? If it's leaning to these things like universal connectedness, decreased creativity, reduced productivity, all this stuff, then why wouldn't I just get rid of It? There's no point in this. I'm just causing myself problems. And that really is how we should be talking about addiction. The biblical language around the concept of addiction is the language of slavery being mastered by something and shackled to it. So often the hardest cages to escape are the ones that we've chosen for ourselves, like our

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