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Breaking Up (and Making Up) with Your Phone

Chasing Life

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Is There a Rubber Band on My Phone?

If you know an app is a problem for you and it's not actually benefiting you, then get it off your phone. The design of many of our most problematic apps is that they're designed to hijack our brain circuitry so that we end up checking them without even realizing what we're doing. So one suggestion I have to people is to put like a rubber band or something around your phone. That can be just enough to break the cycle.

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