For me Ive found replacement activities like painting to do instead when I’m tired and get back from work with no brain capacity left. And whenever I notice that my phone use habits are starting to become much too dominant I take a week to decouple. So I turn it off and leave it at home as much as possible to break my habits. This takes some mental energy so it’s only possible in periods where I have the energy to spend.
I also intently buy small phones because it makes them less attractive to use in my experience. It’s unfortunate that small phones are seemingly disappearing from the market.
Dumb phone, no data plan.
I’m sure that there are a lot of productivity apps that help with limiting screen time. But maybe we should ask ourselves what is the root cause of this behavior. Or rather, which one of our needs is not being met at that moment when we reach for the phone.
I have a feeling that it’s mainly due to lack of connection with people. We are atomized and alienated wage slaves in capitalism. So this is a systemic issue which can only be solved by systemic solutions. But those are not coming anytime soon so maybe we should focus on ways to increase connection with friends and people. Which fucking sucks since I am an introvert
