Phone Free Will
Can you own a phone without it owning you? After years of Phone Dad fails, one TV producer's 1,000 hour experiment in retraining the brain on the commute. A journey into the phone-addled mind, work invading family life, and what it takes to be present.
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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...
Riding The Choo Choo
I have long resisted the urge to write about how the commute has been transformed into something wonderful because ugh.
But I’m reluctantly breaking that habit due to a very odd experience last week on the 1853.
As long time readers will...
Oi, Phone Dad!
For several years I worked a four day week. One day a week was spent looking after my kids.
Or to put it more honestly, one day a week was looking after my kids and looking at my phone.
(We should likely add “and looking at my phone” more...
I Spent 100 Hours Rawdogging - And Learnt What It's Missing
It’s been a mixed week.
On the plus side, I passed the one hundred hours mark. One hundred hours of mental silence on the daily commute. No phones, no music, no nothing - since the start of the year.
But on the other hand… turns out I’m r...
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The 1,000 Hour Experiment: Doing Nothing Daily. I'm Will - a TV producer, journalist, phone addict and High Vis Idiot. Retraining my brain on the train to stop being Phone Dad. Neuroscience, ancient philosophy and what it takes to be present.
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