Some weeks ago, I was (and still am) making a conscious effort to deal with phone addiction, and wrote a blog post pointing out you don't really need the damn t

Some weeks ago, I was (and still am) making a conscious effort to deal with phone addiction, and wrote a blog post pointing out you don't really need the damn things most of the time, and encouraging ignoring them. A few days later, I was at the car wash, thoroughly cleaning my car interior with a vacuum. Phone was out of my pocket, I saw my wife calling, figured I'd just call her back, which I did a few minutes later. Turned out she'd fallen at home and severely injured knee, so she needed me to come take her to urgent care. And because she'd left her phone behind when she went outside to rip vines off the house (and then fell from a ladder), she had to crawl back through the house in massive pain in order to call me. Sigh. That said, I have removed Facebook and Twitter from my phone, and removed most things from my opening screen. But I keep Kindle there. When I feel a need to give my eyes something to do, I can read a book. That's been awesome.