Andy Stumpf

And I don't know how we started talking about it, but it was this conversation around screen time.

It's like, all right, but let's pull the phones out.

Let's see what we got.

It's not awesome.

I think it was four and a half hours.

So we decided that in January of this year, we're going to try to drive our screen time per day to under an hour for total phone usage.

I think phone calls we were able to strip out of that.

I think the closest he got was about 90 minutes.

And then the last week of January for me, I got mine down to 30 minutes.

Now for clarity, I was still doing a lot of the stuff that I was doing on my phone, but I forced it over to my laptop, which was a really interesting experience because it's way less sticky on that platform.

So Instagram on your laptop sucks.

It's not intuitive.

The things that you would normally just do with your thumb, they don't exist.

So you end up closing your laptop up.

So I'd get on there, post what I wanted to, and then just leave.

My mental health was better in January than it had been in a long time.

So I 100% think that social media is not only designed to suck up as much as that left-hand portion of your list is possible, but again, it's optional.

I mean, you create content, you have a massive platform.

I create content.

We can easily tell ourselves we have to exist on these platforms, which to a degree we do.