You and your smartphone — who is in charge of who?

Jennifer Hammersmark
Mind Your Madness
Published in
1 min readApr 7, 2018
Graffiti, Lagos, Portugal

“Smartphones are not designed to help us, they are designed to keep us hooked” says Tristan Harris, ex-Google Design Ethicist. Tristan now runs a non-profit initiative called Time Well Spent, advocating for awareness of how tech companies profit off of user’s attention.

If you want to be more in control of your device usage, and not let your device control you, see what Lloyd Montgomery has to say about how to take charge of your smartphone.

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