A Minimalist Phone That Will Make You Smarter
Not so long ago we all carried a minimalist phone. They served for calls and text and maybe a few minutes of Snake here and there.
But in 2007, everything changed…
Steve Jobs unveiled the future: the iPhone 3 marked the beginning of the mobile revolution, the era of the apps and streaming.
Prepending smart before “phone” in the process, our devices are a constant source of amusement and distraction. We now spend more than 3 hours per day using our phones, a staggering 90 hours per month!
Wouldn’t you like to get 90 hours of your time back every month? I sure would!
And so we must dumb-down our phone. Make it less interesting. Less appealing. Revert the years to when phones were tools for communication, rather than time and soul-sucking devices.
And that’s exactly the goal of the minimalist phone setup. To craft a better relationship with your phone. To be in control and stop living in a reactive mode.
Getting your time, and life, back.
The Minimalist Phone Setup
The minimalist phone setup changes three paradigms of how you interact with your phone:
- Your phone is a tool that helps you get things done rather than distract…