Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Roose Kevin

Author:Roose, Kevin [Roose, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business, Science, Self Help, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology
ISBN: 9780593133347
Amazon: 059313334X
Goodreads: 48710241
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2021-01-12T08:00:00+00:00

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After a few days with a rubber band on my phone, I started following Catherine’s other recommendations. I kept my phone outside my bedroom at night so that it wouldn’t interrupt my sleep. I pruned my apps, deleting distracting time-wasters and moving more calming, productive apps to my home screen, and disabled all but the most urgent push notifications.

Then, I started rebuilding my attention span by reading books—setting a timer and sitting down for ten minutes at a time, then twenty, then a full hour. I took daily walks without my phone, and I picked up hobbies, like cooking and pottery making, that kept my hands busy and my mind distracted from what was happening on Twitter.

Eventually, I started to acclimate to the feeling of being unstimulated, and I found strange things happening. The physical world seemed brighter and more alive. During my phone-free walks, I noticed little details I’d never noticed before—the misspelled “chicken parmesean” sign on the Italian restaurant down the block, the stately maple tree on the corner. My sleep and my mood improved, and I daydreamed for the first time in years.

The final phase in Catherine’s plan is the “trial separation”—a twenty-four-hour period in which you don’t use your phone at all. (I’m an overachiever, so I aimed for forty-eight hours.) I booked an Airbnb on a farm a few hours away, set my out-of-office autoresponder, and my wife and I took off for a weekend of off-the-grid leisure.

A phone-free mini-vacation involved some complications. Without Google Maps, we got lost and had to pull over for directions. Without Yelp, we had trouble finding open restaurants. But mostly, it was an amazing two days, filled with the kinds of small, subtle pleasures I hadn’t experienced in years. I woke up at dawn, brewed strong coffee, and went for long hikes. We read books, did the crossword puzzle, and fell asleep to the sound of a crackling fire. I felt like a nineteenth-century homesteader, if the homesteader periodically worried that he was missing some good TikToks.

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