Phone Free Will
One TV producer's 1,000 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. Neuroscience, ancient wisdom and presence.
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Who Keeps Picking Up The Phone All The Time?
I’ve been doing my daily high vis phone free commute for nearly six months now.
But I haven’t fully explained how it all started.
Not fully.
First some important context: my family are terrible at stacking the dishwasher.
I too was once...
The Boredom Line
I once learnt that Mary Shelley came up with the idea for Frankenstein in what she described as a “waking dream”.
It was apparently very popular in the 1820s to let your mind wander, and enjoy what popped in. Doctors warned against it, wor...
Turning Out The Nightlight
In the last post, I promised I would unveil Phone Free Will’s first ever special guest star.
Coming up, as they say on Morning TV. But first: back to the early days of the experiment.
When I started this in January I reported that one of...
The Attention Gym
133 hours. And bad news to report.
Two more people I spoke to this week on the commute described what I was doing as rawdogging. The sex act term seems to be bedding in. The profundity I’d been aiming for is slipping away. Drat.
I wanted...
Thinking Is Overrated
I once had a hangover so bad it had philosophical implications.
When I was younger, the main downside of a hangover would be feeling sick.
When I got older, the downsides changed. Feeling hungover and smelling terrible while a little todd...
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I'm Will - a TV producer, father and High Vis Idiot. Turns out the phone was making everything I love more boring. So I'm spending 1,000 hours doing absolutely nothing on my commute to find out why. Neuroscience, ancient wisdom, funny phone stories.
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