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I agree that the phone can draw you in because that is by design.

Where we differ is who’s responsible for what happens next. I am solely responsible for where I spend my attention. The tools I use are: adding friction, disabling the hooks and tactics and changing defaults so that less willpower is required, and, ultimately, if I can't make it work how I want, I get rid of it.

If I feel like something is working against me and I can't remedy that, it's gone.



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