Dale Davidson

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"Eventually she made the switch to what I think was a Light Phone that only has a few particular apps like maps and things, and she had very positive effects. And basically she said once you made the switch it was a little bit hard, but not that hard in the end."

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"C. A. McLaren... She is a writer in England who documented her experience giving up her smartphone on her Substack, Hanging Up. So I liked these two examples because it was well documented what happened when they tried to remove digital distraction from their life."

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"There's even a whole Reddit community like r/dumbphones or something where people kind of talk about their configurations of their Nokias or whatever it is they have to remove distractions."

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"They said they'd never had someone try to pay with a laptop before. Showed them my Nokia. They liked it."

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"They do have internet at the house, but it's a mobile hotspot that you plug into the wall and it uses a cell signal, and it's unplugged by default. And the process is, when he needs to do something online, he tells his wife he's going to plug it in and kind of gives her a time estimate of how long it will take him."

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"She has a Roomba or some other smart vacuum cleaner that's always going around... But regularly it would just get stuck or it needs some kind of update that requires your phone, and you spend a non-trivial amount of time just trying to solve your Roomba problem, and you already ate up all the time savings there."