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1. Who Keeps Picking Up The Phone All The Time?

Wasn't me

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Highlights

Riding The Choo Choo

Appreciating the everyday isn’t easy. Took me 116 hours.

May 5 • Phone Free Will

I’ve Spent 80 Hours In Silence And Now I See Dead People

What happened when cave people got their first phones

Mar 24 • Phone Free Will

The phone pours into every chapter break in family life

Feb 10 • Phone Free Will

Haunted By Clive

How to stop work worries invading family life

Jan 15 • Phone Free Will

Back Story

4. I had a spiritual awakening on the school run

But it didn't fix my phone use, so I bought a high vis vest

Jul 7 • Phone Free Will

3. The End Of The Line

I tried to out-meditate my phone

Jun 30 • Phone Free Will

2. Same Time Tomorrow

The unexpected power of a fridge

Jun 23 • Phone Free Will

1. Who Keeps Picking Up The Phone All The Time?

Jun 16 • Phone Free Will

How To Fight The Phone

Phones And The Mind

Don't worry about the quality of AI. Worry about the quantity.

What nuclear bears taught me

Jul 14 • Phone Free Will

Turning Out The Nightlight

What a railway historian taught me about phones and loneliness

Jun 2 • Phone Free Will

Thinking Is Overrated

Says man who commutes in high vis vest

May 12 • Phone Free Will

Phones Are Everyone’s Fourth Biggest Problem

But fixing your phone use can make problems one, two and three look a lot more manageable

Apr 7 • Phone Free Will

Trying To Be A Better Person At 10pm

Training the mind is a daytime job. So if evening free time means telly, don't feel bad.

Mar 17 • Phone Free Will

I Stopped Listening To Podcasts

Silence is scary - until you can turn it into your Dreamworld

Mar 10 • Phone Free Will

Dopamine and Dukkha

The phone worsens an itch you can never fully scratch

Feb 24 • Phone Free Will

Spying On Other People’s Phones

The trillion dollar war for your mind

Jan 27 • Phone Free Will

Phones And Family Life

The Boredom Line

How to be happy going to B&Q to look at paint

Jun 9 • Phone Free Will

Why I looked at my phone while looking after my children - and the momentum that made it impossible to stop

Apr 28 • Phone Free Will

Everyone's Favourite Toy: Adults Are Like Naughty Kids When It Comes To Phones

We all worry about protecting kids from phones. Won’t someone PLEASE think of the adults?

Mar 31 • Phone Free Will

The phone pours into every chapter break in family life

Feb 10 • Phone Free Will

I Spent 30 Days Phone Free Commuting

I feel great - but I had to pay a terrible price

Feb 3 • Phone Free Will

The Lonely Spaceman on the 9.17 to Waterloo

What I learnt about commuters (and myself) when I stopped looking at my screen

Jan 20 • Phone Free Will

Haunted By Clive

How to stop work worries invading family life

Jan 15 • Phone Free Will

I Made My Daughter Cry, Now I Wear High Vis

How I learned the phone was my nemesis, fought it, lost - and finally snapped.

Jan 4 • Phone Free Will

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One TV producer's 1,000 hour experiment in deliberately doing nothing on his commute. A very funny, very serious investigation into what the phone is doing to the mind - and what you find when you put it down. Neuroscience, ancient wisdom, an Evil Advisor

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