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Long-form notes on screen time, attention, and the finite weeks they add up to, written by the people who build finit. No content mill, no cadence to feed. New pieces appear rarely, and only when there's something worth saying.
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Can you remember the last reel you watched?
An hour of scrolling and nothing to show for it, not even a memory of the last clip. Why that's industrial design rather than weak willpower, the real numbers on attention, and what comes back.
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How to reduce screen time (without blocking a thing)
Leave it at home, watch-only days, grayscale, a notification amnesty: tactics that survive contact with an ordinary life, what a detox really does, and the one habit that makes any of it stick.
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Average screen time: the honest numbers
About 3.6 hours a day in apps alone. But the real answer depends on who's counting. Every figure with its source, its year, and the caveats the listicles skip.
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Before you buy a dumbphone
What a dumbphone fixes, what it quietly costs, the relapse nobody mentions, and the free two-week way to test the idea on the iPhone you already own.
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Your life in weeks
About 4,300 weeks, one cell each: an interactive chart, right on the page. Where Tim Urban's grid comes from, the honest math, and what four hours a day draws on it.
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Opal, reviewed honestly
The most serious hard blocker on the phone. Strictness is both its feature and its failure mode. Reviewed by a maker with no blocker to sell, alternatives included.
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one sec, reviewed honestly
The friction specialist, and the only app in the category whose mechanism survived a dismantling experiment. What the PNAS study really shows, and where the breath stops working.
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ScreenZen, reviewed honestly
The best free thing in the category, and it isn't close. Where the gentle pause shines, where gentleness fails, and what to escalate to when it does.
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How far back does Screen Time go?
About four weeks. Then your iPhone deletes the detail for good. What you can still see, what's gone, and the three real ways to keep a record that lasts.
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Do app blockers actually work?
Field studies and randomized trials agree: friction works while it runs, and fades when it stops. Read in full, including the parts inconvenient for us.
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The best app blockers for iPhone
Opal, one sec, ScreenZen, Freedom, or just Apple's App Limits? Chosen honestly by an app that competes with none of them, plus when you don't need a blocker at all.