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Can a $60 Plastic Cube Solve Our Screen-Time Crisis?
- fortran77 4mo agohttps://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/brick-smartphone-screen-time-6dd4fe69?st=bSxaxn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/brick-smartphone-scre...
- fortran77 4mo agoNo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- dabinat 4mo agoI’ve been locking my phone in a timed lockbox for the past few weeks and it has been transformative. There’s something psychological about knowing my phone isn’t available for the next 1-2 hrs and I don’t need to think about it. I think it’s better than Brick because it can’t be bypassed. I have been considerably more focused and productive as a result. The problem I had is that my phone controls a lot of other stuff that I might need while it’s locked away (e.g. my smart lights), but I am working on getting single-purpose physical equivalent devices, and maybe a burner phone with no apps or web browser installed for everything else.