How to break up with your phone
by Catherine Price · first published 2018
71% recommend29% neutral
Why HN recommends it
Offers a practical, gradual 30-day plan for reducing phone habits through a mindful approach. It provides concrete steps for cutting back on the most harmful smartphone use.
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"Award-winning journalist Catherine Price presents a practical, hands-on plan to break up -- and then make up -- with your phone. The goal? A long-term relationship that actually feels good. You'll discover how phones and apps are designed to be addictive and how the time we spend on them damages our abilities to focus, think deeply, and form new memories. You'll then make customized changes to your settings, apps, environment, and mindset that will enable you to take back control of your life -- both on your phone and off."--Back cover.
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I really like the book "How to Break Up With Your Phone" by Catherine Price [0,1]. It has a 30-day step by step plan to restructure your habits around technology, and I've found it more effective than anything else. I especially like that it is gradual, gentle,…
on “Ask HN: Mobile phone addiction help?” ↗Good books on this are 'Digital Minimalism' and 'How to break up with your phone'. I get worried that at some point toddlers growing up with tablets from day one will be unable to function as in normal society and most interactions will be completely made up of people staring at a…
on “Continuous Partial Attention” ↗Another relevant book in this space is How To Break Up With Your Phone [1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21618775W/How_to_Break_up_wi...
on “My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span” ↗I recommend the book "How to break up with your phone". I liked it because I thought it gave good practical advice on reducing the most detrimental effects of a smartphone. One of the reviews on the back flap is something like "<This Author> is the Marie…
on “The Atlantic Did Me Dirty” ↗Some ideas. Delete any accounts you have with these services. When you’re home, put your phone away, don’t carry it on you. Read the book “How to break up with your phone” by Catherine Anne Price. Have one or two books that every time you are tempted to go to one of those services you pick up and read that book instead. Meditate. Exercise. Do gardening. BUT ultimately……
on “Ask HN: Most effective way to reduce excessive digital media consumption?” ↗…Heather Burns Understanding Privacy Roger McNamee Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe Siva Vaidhyanathan Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us Catherine Price How to Break Up With Your Phone Thomas Kersting Disconnected: Protect Your Kids Against Device Dependency Nicholas Kardaras Glow Kids Zeynep Tufekci Twitter and Tear Gas Lelia Green Technoculture Douglas…
on “Are smartphones serving as adult pacifiers?” ↗…being driven from core values and encompassing all device usage resonates on a deeper level for me than the author's. That said, I haven't read yet the book written by the coach of the article author, How to Break Up With Your Phone. Looking forward to checking that out. https://www.amazon.com/How-Break-Up-Your-Phone/dp/039958112X
on “I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain” ↗I know lots of adults who talk about "curing their phone addiction". I don't think someone would find it necessary to write a book "How To Break Up With Your Phone" (using what's referred to as a "digital detox program") if there weren't a substantial number of people who wanted to stop infinite scrolling behavior on their phone but found it difficult. https://www.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/k3vzaa/how_to_break...…
on “Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case” ↗