Company
Date Published
Author
Ryan Richards
Word count
709
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

I spend most of my days staring at a medium-sized rectangle, which is called "working." The problem is that another, smaller rectangle keeps taking up more and more of my attention, which is my phone. It's distracting me from my job, family, and life in general, and I've tried various methods to change this relationship, such as willpower, bricking my phone, switching to grayscale, turning off Wi-Fi at night, deleting distracting apps, and blocking my browser. Ultimately, blocking my browser using parental controls on my iPhone was what solved the problem, making it wonderful for me to focus now and feel more free to live life without excessive phone usage.