I’m always tempted by the idea. I like the focus on attention span, compartmentalizing functionality (a phone is just a phone, not a notebook, camera, movie the

I’m always tempted by the idea. I like the focus on attention span, compartmentalizing functionality (a phone is just a phone, not a notebook, camera, movie theater and encyclopedia) and less tracking by third parties. The thing is modern smartphones are just so damn useful. I find it hard to swallow that I’d have to let go of all that usefulness because it’s detrimental in some respects. Setting it up such that it works only in your favor is relatively simple (grey scale, notifications off, insert strategy here) but then keeping it that way and preventing feature creep back to square one is hard. It requires constant vigilance. It feels like the ol’ “adversarially wrestling usefulness out of a trillion dollar company”.