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LM: #332: You need two phones
The best $200 I’ve spent in the past year has been for a used iPhone 11.
I put all my social apps on it, and deleted them from my main phone.
I’m usually at home, so it’s technically just as easy to pick it up and waste several hours, but this is mitigated in two ways.
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One, the stuff I need to do on a phone, such as message people, no longer leads to unintended social-media time-travel. The let me check my likes a second or multitasking as you wait for a text response.
Two, when I do use my second phone, I know I’m doing it. So I’m more intentional. I either designate that, yes, it’s okay to take a social media break, or I begin with a specific social-media task in mind. Best of all, when I do those things, I have a bigger screen, yet my main phone is still the only sane size for an everyday carry phone – the 13 mini.
The amount of focus I’ve had over the past year has been worth $200, I suspect, many times over (I’ll find out for sure when my next book comes out).
By now, everyone has extra devices laying around. You cannot argue that you can’t afford a second phone. Who can afford not to?
Aphorism: “Media, as extensions of our physical and nervous systems, constitute a world of biochemical interactions that must ever seek new equilibrium as new extensions occur.” —Marshall McLuhan
Cool: LMNT is such a good electrolyte supplement.
Best,
David
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