Jeremy Relosa

There was like people who were like, this was the worst thing because I couldn't get anything done on my phone.

I had the worst time.

It was such an unproductive day.

And then there was another camp of folks in the meeting that were like, that was the best day I've ever had because I was completely off my phone.

I didn't have to check it.

And how nice it was to just take a break from our screens.

I thought, oh, this like goes hand in hand with my 90s fantasy to live a little bit more simply.

I think I was actually put off by the amount of texts I was getting from friends and group chats.

And that was kind of the primary mode of communication with most of my life.

I think the thesis for this was I don't think we were meant to have...

80 open conversations going at once.

And I wanted to like really simplify that.

Absolutely.

It almost felt the same way I feel when I have a lot in my inbox, like for work.

And I was like, I shouldn't be feeling this way about my friends reaching out to me.

The only app, the social media I have is Instagram.

I felt like I was like taking in so much information from people who I just didn't have any real relation to in person, like in my personal life.

It was just like kind of like an overload of information that I felt like was just piling up in my brain.

I set some rules.

I was like, well, I do have to use my laptop and email for work.