Notes

Phone addiction is the condition of the moment. Everyone has it.

You can throw the device away, but then you downgrade yourself. You block access to things that actually work, and you make life harder for no real gain.

Some people carry sensors that talk to their phone. A CGM sensor on the arm, glucose numbers on the screen. Some live far from their family and the phone is the only line back. Going flip phone is going backward. That is not the answer.

None of that justifies how much we use it. None of it justifies the hooks.

Detox does not work either. You go clean for a week, then you come back and use it more than before. I ran all the tricks. Grayscale screen. App limits. Empty home screen. They buy you a few days.

What changed this time is simple. I am done.

Same feeling I had in 2019 when I quit social media. Not a plan, not a challenge, not a streak. A decision.

This year the decision was about how I use the phone, not whether I own one. I worked on it constantly because it was there. Accessible. Which meant I was in working mindset every waking hour. Work does not end when the laptop closes if the work fits in your pocket.

Have you been thinking about taking the world by storm in the first days of a new project? Let's get to the point: that's totally wrong. Normally, if you launch a new project and it gets good support, you can make a good pitch in those first days. But after that, it's you who decides whether it becomes something greater. Your project can't guide itself. You do that.

So be patient.

Changing the world: that's what each of us says. But how? Do we need to start all over, or start from the beginning?

All these questions come to us when we think about starting a project meant to change the world.

But how about solving the problems we already have in real life, or improving something that exists?

Answering that question clears things up, and gets you doing instead of living inside the loop of thinking.

Start doing today

Social networks are a goldmine for those who know how to use them. I used to collect information and follow the news about technology. I had fun sharing some of it. But in the end, what did I get?

Certainly a mind full of information, but a mind that can't focus on one thing.

After a short time reflecting on this, I decided to take these steps:

• Get off all social networks for a long while.
• Get off the internet for a while.
• Look around you, and look at what you are missing in real life.
• Clean up the mess in your mind.
• Focus on one thing, only one thing.
• Share your experience.

A few days later, things had already started to change for the better.

Give it a try!