They’re on My Phone Telling Me I Really Ought to Get Off My Phone.
Everyone’s getting off their phones in order to notice things in order to come back online to tell everyone what they noticed in order to get others to do it in order to get off their phones again in
The other day, I opened Substack and saw a post by someone who wrote about eating breakfast without their phone. They said they ate their pancakes and sipped their cappuccino at a coffee shop while looking out the window and watching and hearing as all the people came and went outside. They were able to do this because they didn’t have their phone, and they said that the whole thing was really special, eating breakfast without their phone, that it was a quietly spiritual and intellectually invigorating experience. And they said that I and everyone else really ought to do the same thing: to…
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