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IT’S TIME FOR BETTER DAYS

Nineteen hours 47 minutes. I was stunned. No, I wasn’t on a flight to Hong Kong or counting the hours while waiting for my internet service provider to return my call. According to my iPhone screen report, that was the amount of time I had spent on my phone over the past seven days.

Ironically I thought I was doing much better at staying offline after reading trend forecaster James Wallman’s Time and How To Spend It. To be fair to myself, at least two of my screen-time hours don’t count because they were consumed by navigation apps while I was driving. However, the reality is that I spent a whopping four hours on WhatsApp and received

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