Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver you from time, GPS abstracts you out of space, and an all-consuming screen that keeps you a constant safe distance from yourself. If there’s something you’re worried or upset about, you can simply hide behind your phone and it will all go away. One third of adults say they’re on their phones almost constantly. Their entire waking lives are spent filling time, plastering over the gaps, burning up one day after another, waiting for something to happen, and it never does.

From here but via here.

I have that bold text and ‘screening out consciousness’ stuck in my head.

Simon Woods

Reminds me of this post by Gregory Alvarez, which recently burrowed its way into my brain.

Omar

@SimonWoods "The problem is that having a smartphone in your pocket 24/7 connected to everything makes you overdose."

Thanks for sharing that. Was interesting to read about what he uses instead of the phone.

Simon Woods

Yep. I've already altered my plan for my own set-up since my first reading of the post, though in a good way; I have quickly realised that my thoughts on this are also driven by my desire to have separate systems for work apart from everything else.