Cal Newport: Career Progression and Consciously Disconnecting
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How Much Do We Use Our Phones?
i think when i was doing research for digital minimalism is that this constant companion model we have of our phone where it's something we look at all the time. At every moment we're just filling any empty space with looking at our screen and the key thing to know about that is that that behavior is recent and engineered. The major social media companies led by facebook realized they had to get their revenue up significantly to get the type of return that their early stage investors demanded which were some pretty powerful VCs. They re-engineered the entire facebook experience in two ways one they made it mobile because people had their phones with them all the time and so this increased the opportunity for people looks
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