“I carry my phone around with me as if it were an oxygen tank.” A statement most of us can relate to. This New Yorker article contrasts the philosophies of a computer scientist, 📝Cal Newport (author of “Digital Minimalism”) and an artist, Jenny Odell (author of “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy), for releasing the tight grip our phones have on our attention. Rather than establishing a set of rigorous habits, we may need to rethink our approach to life in general.
