David Pierce

So one is it's very expensive. Each of those little tiny readers that don't really do anything is $59. Oh, wow. And so the idea of having a few of these adds up fast. The other thing is it's really, sort of a blunt instrument, right?

It doesn't have sort of a schedule that understands like what you're doing and the idea that like, oh, I actually need to check this one thing, but only for two minutes, and then I don't want to be able to look at it again. It's also, I should say, a really... easy habit to break. The reason that it works is that it is really straightforward to do.

It doesn't have sort of a schedule that understands like what you're doing and the idea that like, oh, I actually need to check this one thing, but only for two minutes, and then I don't want to be able to look at it again. It's also, I should say, a really... easy habit to break. The reason that it works is that it is really straightforward to do.

It doesn't have sort of a schedule that understands like what you're doing and the idea that like, oh, I actually need to check this one thing, but only for two minutes, and then I don't want to be able to look at it again. It's also, I should say, a really... easy habit to break. The reason that it works is that it is really straightforward to do.

Their idea is that you'll like put one brick, I don't know, on your desk at work and another one by your front door at home where you leave your keys, right? And so you like break it when you get home, unbreak it when you get to work, like whatever. You sort of build that into kind of the routine of your life.

Their idea is that you'll like put one brick, I don't know, on your desk at work and another one by your front door at home where you leave your keys, right? And so you like break it when you get home, unbreak it when you get to work, like whatever. You sort of build that into kind of the routine of your life.

Their idea is that you'll like put one brick, I don't know, on your desk at work and another one by your front door at home where you leave your keys, right? And so you like break it when you get home, unbreak it when you get to work, like whatever. You sort of build that into kind of the routine of your life.

I forgot to do it once and completely fell out of the habit of doing it for like two weeks.

I forgot to do it once and completely fell out of the habit of doing it for like two weeks.

I forgot to do it once and completely fell out of the habit of doing it for like two weeks.

The way I have come to think about it is that our responsibility is definitely to remember what was good about not being on our phones all the time. But the problem that we have, is we think phones are awesome. Like, we also grew up in the time when all of this stuff was just cool. It was just exciting and didn't feel problematic.

The way I have come to think about it is that our responsibility is definitely to remember what was good about not being on our phones all the time. But the problem that we have, is we think phones are awesome. Like, we also grew up in the time when all of this stuff was just cool. It was just exciting and didn't feel problematic.

The way I have come to think about it is that our responsibility is definitely to remember what was good about not being on our phones all the time. But the problem that we have, is we think phones are awesome. Like, we also grew up in the time when all of this stuff was just cool. It was just exciting and didn't feel problematic.

And taking 100 pictures of my drunk college friends and posting all of them on Facebook felt exciting and not horrifying. And I think we have... the full spectrum of that experience in a way that almost no one else does. And I think our responsibility is to sort of hold all of that in our head at the same time, which is really challenging. That, to me, feels like the job.

And taking 100 pictures of my drunk college friends and posting all of them on Facebook felt exciting and not horrifying. And I think we have... the full spectrum of that experience in a way that almost no one else does. And I think our responsibility is to sort of hold all of that in our head at the same time, which is really challenging. That, to me, feels like the job.

And taking 100 pictures of my drunk college friends and posting all of them on Facebook felt exciting and not horrifying. And I think we have... the full spectrum of that experience in a way that almost no one else does. And I think our responsibility is to sort of hold all of that in our head at the same time, which is really challenging. That, to me, feels like the job.

And that's a really hard job.

And that's a really hard job.

And that's a really hard job.

Oh, yeah. David, there's a new gadget. It's not an unreasonable explanation of my job. So that's fine. I'm not mad about that at all. Yeah, I think it's definitely shifted a little bit. We talk about gadgets as gadgets so much less than we used to. They're like cultural objects in a much more real way. And I think that's been a sort of natural shift of my career. But like...