Dear readers,
I have often heard, “smartphones are just a tool like anything else. It’s the way we use them that matters.”
The problem for me was, yes, that’s true, and yet I don’t use my phone like I use a salad spinner. 100% of the time I use a salad spinner, I am spinning salad or veggies. With my iPhone, I can confidently state that 80% of the time, I watch YouTube podcasts and follow politics incessantly before bed and in the morning.
I was never able to use the “tools” an iPhone gave me well. Instead, I got trapped in the algorithmic machine that funds big tech companies.
I eventually came to a pretty simple and humbling conclusion: I am not able to use my smartphone well without being distracted or wasting time.
As Jesus says in the Gospel of Mathew, “If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away.”
This wisdom is the opposite of the “technology is neutral” argument. And I was determined to try it for myself.
So I bought a salad spinner equivalent of a phone.…
