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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| Issues | 37 | Founded | 9 months ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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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...
How I Started Meditating
The last of these hopefully more practical Summer pieces before I take a month’s break.
I write these articles from the perspective of 216 hours of phone free commuting, which itself followed 18 months of meditation.
So my experience of s...
Why don’t you just read a book?
I wouldn’t want to invade people’s privacy by taking photos of them enjoying reading on the Surbiton commute. This stock photo is roughly what it looks like.
It’s nearly the final episode of Phone Free Will’s summer shorts. Reader question...
I stopped checking my screen time
Phone Free Will’s Summer Shorts continues. Answers to reader questions, weird miscellany.
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...
So You Just Scrolled...
I’m not a big TikTok user, but if this advert at the station is anything to go by it looks like a very compelling place of learning - I can see why people like it
This is the second of a little handful of shorter summer essays - some reade...
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Looked at my phone during my daughter's ballet recital. She cried. Tried everything to stop using phone. Nothing worked. Learnt how to meditate. Had awakening. Still on phone. Now devoting daily commute to 1,000 hours of doing nothing. In High Vis.
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