{"id":860,"date":"2025-08-02T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/i-tried-bricking-my-phone-to-fix-my-brain\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:00:00","slug":"i-tried-bricking-my-phone-to-fix-my-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/i-tried-bricking-my-phone-to-fix-my-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried \u2018Bricking\u2019 my phone to fix my brain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tFixing my eroded attention span has been a journey. Brick has sort of helped.\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

\u00ab\u00a0We need to talk.\u00a0\u00bb Nobody likes to hear those words from their spouse. Especially when it’s delivered in a grave tone as you rot on a couch in a grubby blankie, staring like a zombie while doomscrolling. <\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Wut?\u00a0\u00bb I said, very intelligently.<\/p>\n

What came next was a compassionate but firm speech about how I was in dire need of an intervention. My attention span, my spouse said, was utterly shot to hell. They’d just asked my opinion about something happening on the TV show we were watching. I hadn’t heard them. At all. Apparently, they’d repeated the question three times. Instead, I’d been engrossed in\u2026 actually, I couldn’t tell you. <\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0You have \u2026<\/p>\n

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