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Latino Unicorn's avatar

Thank you for this post, I’m currently also trying to navigate and experiment with operating two phones to manage my two lives. While also, spending less time on each of those phones in totality per week/per day. Look forward to hearing more of your journey.

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Maxienne Robey's avatar

It’s good to know I’m. It the only one feeling this way. Plus, Substack is much better on an iPad, I’m realizing

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Zahra Kamasi's avatar

I've tried not to have a smart phone for nearly a decade now and the failing is the baseline assumption in the US that one does have one. I need it to pay for parking, to call a car, even to check bus schedules and pay fare. That said, I am moving somewhere soon where society isn't as I line and I saw plenty of folks with bar and flip phones. I'm excited for you. It's nice not to be so tethered.

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Maxienne Robey's avatar

I’m in a unique situation where I have two phones (double the distraction!). Right now, the plan is to keep one with just useful tools (like Uber, maps, airline tickets, Venmo, etc) and remove all entertainment, social media, and shopping apps. This is not a rejection of technology at all. I love technology. But technology should be working for me and adding to my life, not diminishing it.

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Zahra Kamasi's avatar

I also have two phones and I feel you. I think my work phone I will keep and my personal phone, I will get a nice satisfying flip phone, now that I can finally afford to get rid of it. Thanks for the tip!

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Maxienne Robey's avatar

Oh, glad its applicable to you too! I know its not going to be an option for most people, but I'm going to take it since I have the opportunity

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D.F. Blair's avatar

“I am consciously divesting my attention away from the attention economy.”

That’s a marvelous turn of phrase!

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Maxienne Robey's avatar

Oh, Im glad you liked it. Part of me is terrified I heard someone else say it, absorbed it, and wrote it thinking it was my own. Glad it’s resonating either way!

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D.F. Blair's avatar

Picasso said, “Good artists create, great artists steal.”

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Maxienne Robey's avatar

I can work with that ♥️

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Rebelrie's avatar

Super interesting and excited about your flip phone journey! Enjoy and can't wait to hear about it soon XO

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Maxienne Robey's avatar

We’ll see how it goes but it will be interesting I’m sure!

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David Nelson's avatar

We know about the Frites" would have done same thing, lol we ordered them in amaterdam all the time

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Maxienne Robey's avatar

I regret nothing! They were amazing! Just not what I anticipated

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David Nelson's avatar

Lol

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