Phone Free Will
One TV producer's 1000 hour experiment in deliberately doing nothing on his commute. A very funny, very serious investigation into what the phone is doing to the mind - and what you find when you put it down. Modern brains, ancient wisdom, an Evil Advisor
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I Made My Daughter Cry By Looking At My Phone. Then I Filmed Her.
Phone addicted idiot dad sighted in Liverpool St station
This morning I will begin Hour 257 of Phone Free Commuting.
To a lot of readers’ surprise, very few people actually talk to me on the commute.
But it does happen. Yesterday I saw a...
Why I Commute Without A Phone
Welcome to all the new readers! Every Tuesday morning I send a brief update from the 1,000 hours of nothing.
Since January 2026, I have devoted my two hour daily commute across London to Phone Free silence. What are the tangible ben...
Can I Find The Profound In The Underground?
I’ve often been jealous of the people who write about putting down the phone and then start noticing and appreciating things.
I want to notice and appreciate things. I’ve spent well over two hundred hours commuting across London without a...
Phones Complete Us
I’ve had a couple of weeks away from phone free commuting, and coming back to it all feels a little unfamiliar.
But for once, the strangest thing hasn’t been putting on a high vis vest.
It’s the wall of phones.
It’s always been the case...
Losing to the phone? You might need more nothing
The most common question I get asked - why don’t you just cut down your screen time like normal people do?
Very fair.
In the years after I made my daughter cry because I looked at my phone rather than her during a ballet recital, I tried...
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Looked at phone at daughter's ballet recital. She cried. Tried everything to kick phone habit. Nothing worked. Learnt to meditate. Had awakening. Still on phone. Now documenting 1,000 hrs of doing nothing on commute. In hi-vis. Funnier than it sounds
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