Make Your Smartphone So Boring You Won’t Want to Use It

Dave Gershgorn
Debugger
Published in
Nov 9, 2020

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I’m a little nuts. Sometimes I use my smartphone too much, and get this — I don’t listen to my screen time notifications.

That’s why I admire this post by Maxime Vaillancourt, who tried to turn his phone into a tool, rather than a toy.

“A tool does its job, then gets out of the way,” Vaillancourt writes.

His methods are for Android rather than iOS, which I will use an excuse to not change how I live my life at all.

Check it out below:

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Dave Gershgorn
Dave Gershgorn

Written by Dave Gershgorn

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.

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