Notes on screen time, behavioural econ, and putting the phone down.

You felt your phone buzz in an empty pocket. That ghost is not random. It is proof your brain has been trained by the most addictive reward schedule known.

iOS Screen Time has been showing you red bars since 2018. They didn't fix anything because of how loss aversion works. The case for putting actual money on the line.

The science of screen-time addiction: apps are built to hook you with behavioural techniques from Stanford. A short tour of the playbook run on you.

Why willpower fails at screen time: self-control is finite and your phone is built to drain it. What behavioural economics says works instead.