> users in rich countries touch their phones 2,600 times a day — once every 33rd second. I touch my computer 400 times a minute, it doesn't mean I'm addicted,

> users in rich countries touch their phones 2,600 times a day — once every 33rd second. I touch my computer 400 times a minute, it doesn't mean I'm addicted, just means I'm typing. Seems like a strange factoid that's just there to shock/scare us. This whole article seems to be a strange mix of not knowing what point it's trying to make and random quotes. >To shut out the world — to sometimes experience silence — is, as I write in my book, not about turning your back on your surroundings, but rather the opposite: it is about searching for your own South Pole, seeing the world a bit more clearly, and trying to love your life. What does that even mean? I guess it would make sense if he had covered any of those points already but he didn't really.