Time and Attention

97: The Flip Phone Experiment

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On this episode, we chat about Chris’s latest experiment, to switch to a flip phone from a smartphone for a period of a month (to start). Topics covered include:

  • How great the flip phone era was;
  • How Ardyn feels about this experiment;
  • The 6 reasons Chris is giving up his smartphone;
  • The downsides to large screen phones;
  • Whether smartphones are a net good in our lives;
  • How personal the technology in our life has become;
  • The “jobs” we “hire” our devices to do for us.

    • Links mentioned in this episode:

    • Article: Here’s why I’m trading in my smartphone for a flip phone this month
    • Article: Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

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