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Minimalism is not a one-time setup. It is a weekly five-minute ritual that keeps your phone honest.

Everyone tracks minutes. Minutes are a terrible proxy. Here is a better way to measure whether your phone is serving you.

We have quietly eradicated boredom in the last fifteen years. The side effects are only now becoming visible.

Minimalism is often confused with deprivation. It is the opposite — a philosophy of keeping what earns its place.

A 2017 study found that the mere presence of a phone — face-down, silent, ignored — reduced cognitive performance. Here is what to do about it.

Every notification is a request for your attention, ranked by a stranger's priorities. Here is how to turn the requests off — and why default settings never will.

Turning your phone black and white sounds extreme. It is also the single most effective tweak for reducing usage that researchers have measured.

A field report on ruthless uninstalling — what I missed, what I didn't, and the surprising apps that turned out to be the real problem.

A grid of icons isn't a neutral interface. It is a marketplace bidding for your attention — and you didn't agree to be the product.

That's once every six waking minutes. Here is what that actually costs you — and why a minimalist launcher is the cheapest fix.

Smartphones were supposed to save us time. They take it instead. Here is why we built a launcher that fights back.