Conquer Digital Addiction

Have you ever heard of “The iPhone Effect”?

Let’s revisit Cal Newport’s Deep Work for another genius idea.

Quick quiz today: Do you know how often the average American checks his or her smartphone?

Inspired by Cal Newport, I don’t read the news online. In fact, my only source of news these days is The Economist. Intelligent. Spacious. International perspective. In print. Weekly. Perfect.

Herbert Simon won the Nobel Prize in Economics. He was one of the early thought leaders in the field of “attention economics.”

In our last +1, we talked about single-mindedly focusing. Today we’ll talk about its opposite: “continuous partial attention.”

Manoush Zomorodi wrote a great little book called Bored and Brilliant.

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that 25 minutes every day = 2 YEARS of your life.

A couple +1s ago, while celebrating Yuval Noah Harari’s lack of a smartphone, I mentioned the fact that we don’t need to become smashing Luddites in response to the tsunami of technology that hammers us all day every day.

In our last +1, we talked about all the zeroes (12 of them!) in the Attention Economy.

Continuing our focus on how to conquer digital addiction, let’s talk about a super simple way to get a little more clarity on the trade-offs you might be making and create a little more motivation to rock it.

As we’ve discussed, Ryan Holiday is a modern Stoic.

In our last +1, we talked about Ryan Holiday’s pro tip on how to reclaim lost time, energy and pure brainpower. (Have you practiced your “I don’t know” or “I don’t care” yet? 🤓)

In our last couple +1s, we’ve talked about Optimizing your FOMO by unplugging from the incessant consumption of the inessential.

In our last +1, we talked about the importance of creating boundaries lest we slip into burnout and we hammered home the whole optimal work-to-rest ratio a little more. 🔨

Not too long ago, we talked about how to get rid of your Fear of Missing Out. The dreaded FOMO!!

The other day I was driving to my Trail a little before sunrise.

In our last several +1s, we’ve been talking about The Power of Agency.

In our last couple +1s, we’ve been having fun hanging out with Jake and JZ and their wisdom on how to Make Time.

In our last few +1s, we’ve been talking about how to Make Time.

Continuing our trip through Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky’s brilliant brains and equally brilliant book Make Time, Today we’re going to have fun with a little history lesson combined with a super-simple way to start chipping away at all those twitchy smartphone touches.

The other day Grandma and Grandpa visited to hang out with the E’s. We had a nice time. 😍

Nir Eyal wrote the playbook that pretty much all of the major tech companies use to create their super-compelling (addictive/Irresistible?) web sites, apps, etc. The book is called Hooked.

David Perlmutter is one of my favorite nutrition-physicians. We have Notes on a bunch of his books including Grain Brain, Brain Maker, and Power Up Your Brain.

In our last +1, we talked about some crazy stats re: smartphone usage from David and Austin Perlmutter’s new book called Brain Wash.

A few +1s ago we spent some time with Jim Kwik and his brilliant book Limitless.

Alexander Graham Bell once said: “Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

As you probably noticed if you’ve been following along, I recently rebooted the PhilosophersNotes TV series.

In Life Visioning, Michael Beckwith tells us we need to turn off the Internet and plug into the Inner-net.

In our last +1, we took a quick trip through the purgatory of the idiot (lol) that is the crowded and busy world of incessant inputs straight to the school of genius which is found at 101 Solitude Lane.