I wanted to get rid of my phone, but the leverage given by my portable emacs machine + instant Wikipedia lookup was just too much to give away.
Without much success I have tried for a long time to quit the most addictive things on my phone (reading news, watching videos), until I recently came up with a doctrine that has been working well: I keep the fun for my laptop, and away from my phone. This way I am not constantly attracted to it, but also not completely out of the loop in a way that would make me abandon my discipline.
Texting remains an unsolved problem... Bantering with all my friend circles at multiple timezones the whole day does distract me very much, but is also a big source of non-programming happiness, which I am in dire need during the pandemic.
Without much success I have tried for a long time to quit the most addictive things on my phone (reading news, watching videos), until I recently came up with a doctrine that has been working well: I keep the fun for my laptop, and away from my phone. This way I am not constantly attracted to it, but also not completely out of the loop in a way that would make me abandon my discipline.
Texting remains an unsolved problem... Bantering with all my friend circles at multiple timezones the whole day does distract me very much, but is also a big source of non-programming happiness, which I am in dire need during the pandemic.