Putting an elastic around your phone + security guards + purging

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Putting an elastic band around your phone.

This is weird, Amy - what are you up to now?

Well, let me ask you this - are you maybe a titch grossed out about how much you stare at your phone? Do you worry that your eyes are literally shrivelling up in your head, that your attention span has dwindled away to such a degree that you can’t pay attention to a sentence, let alone a page? Do your thumbs ache from scrolling?

Well, I have a super low-tech, but effective solution… Put a rubber band on your phone. Just give it a whirl. What can it hurt?

That stupid, stupid, IRRITATING circle of rubber will prevent you from the mindless scroll… Instead, you’ll have to sort of wiggle it away to get to your beloved tweets, or obsessively check the weather, or see if anyone has texted you.

You will not accidentally watch two hours of head-bonking Tiktoks, telling yourself it’s “work” for your newsletter, because the stupid elastic band will be there, bugging you and reminding you that movem…