why you should buy an old iPhone (for your own good).

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Okay, hear me out: You should buy an old iPhone. Not because it’s good, but because it’s really bad at being a phone and that’s exactly why it might be the best decision you ever make. That’s right. The short battery life, the limited features, the way it overheats if you use it too much all at once, these are all good things, not for the phone, but for your sanity..

RESOURCES:
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Bruno Riffaldi’s Video
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MontyMoty’s Video
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REFERENCES:
Quantifying Low-Battery Anxiety of Mobile Users and Its Impacts on Video Watching Behavior
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07662
Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi... their phones.-,Discussion,on the task at hand]
Smartphone screen time reduction improves mental health: a randomized controlled trial
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com...

0:00 Intro
2:00 Short Battery Life = Less Screen Time
3:25 Fewer Features = Fewer Distractions
5:10 Less Screen Time = More Actual Life