The Appstinence Movement: Why Harvard Students Are Dating Flip Phones

What happens when a Harvard student ditches her iPhone, adopts three “dumbphones,” and inspires a nationwide movement to scroll less and think more? Welcome to the age of Appstinence.In this episode of Dumbify, host David Carson digs into the absurdly brilliant rise of digital downgrade culture. You’ll meet Gabriella Wynne, the flip-phone-wielding ringleader of a growing student rebellion that’s swapping screen addiction for silence, solitude, and something terrifyingly rare: original thought. Carson takes you from the brains of bored teenagers to the brains of neuroscientists, connecting slot machine psychology to scroll fatigue, and showing how tiny acts of digital inconvenience can unlock massive creative freedom. You’ll learn about the Light Phone (which doesn’t even have Siri — she’d have a panic attack) and why more people are paying $599 to not download another app. You’ll even get Carson’s “Ladder of Inconvenience” — a step-by-step plan to dumb down your phone without burning your life to the ground.If you've ever reached for your phone during a funeral, or caught yourself swiping at a photograph, this episode is for you.Sign up for the Dumbify newsletter: https://www.david-carson.com/Dumbify celebrates ideas so weird, wrong, or wildly impractical… they just might be brilliant. Hosted by David Carson, a serial entrepreneur behind multiple hundred-million-dollar companies and the go-to secret weapon for companies looking to unlock new markets through unconventional thinking. Dumbify dives into the messy, counter-intuitive side of creativity — the “dumb” ideas that built empires, broke rules, and ended up changing everything.

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