I realized last Sunday that the reason I keep my phone face-down on the counter isn’t a habit, it’s that twenty years of being on-call for everyone trained my body to treat a screen-up phone as a job I haven’t clocked out of
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The phone goes face-down on the counter before I’ve even thought about it. Keys, wallet, phone screen-side to the marble, every time, with the small finality of someone setting down a tool they don’t want to hear use itself. I used to call this a habit. Last Sunday I realised it isn’t one. A habit is something you’ve trained. This is something that trained me.
The conventional wisdom about phone behaviour treats it as a willpower problem. You’re addicted to dopamine
The conventional wisdom about phone behaviour treats it as a willpower problem. You’re addicted to dopamine
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