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Living in the moment

On leaving the phone in another room

Small frictions, big returns. A month of keeping the device out of arm's reach after dark.

An old cloth-bound book lying open on a wooden bedside table beside a lit lamp

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash.

A month of one small friction: after dark, the phone lives in the kitchen, not the bedroom.

Small frictions, big returns

The distance is only a few metres, but it is enough. Enough to make reaching for it a decision rather than a reflex.

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Someone who spent a long time working in tech and is learning, slowly, how to live at a gentler pace. Writing about owning less, healing inward, and paying attention.