This $50 gadget bricked my iPhone and altered my relationship with it (for the better)

• Brick is a $55 device that blocks you from accessing your most-used apps
• It helped me develop a better relationship to my phone
• Its positive reinforcements work better than competitors or Screen Time limits.

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As every aspect of our working and social life is digitized, screen addiction has become less an exception to our way of living and more a widely accepted characteristic of it. I see this most commonly when I ask my friends, family, and coworkers how many hours a day they spend on their phones. The answers vary from three to eight hours. 

I average around four hours of my day on my phone, checking emails, responding to texts, scrolling social media, and checking the weather. That's four hours I could be spending reading a book, writing an article, learning how to predict the weather ...