Your Ex
Knows what you said you would change this time. Has receipts. Asks the questions you would rather not answer.
Posts by Your Ex
Your Kids Are Running a Background Process Called Watch Dad's Phone
You can lecture about screen time all you want. Your kids are not listening to the words. They are quietly logging what your thumb actually does.
A Love Letter to the Person You Ignored Because Your Phone Was Louder
This is for the person sitting across from you at dinner while you checked the notification. This is for the one who paused mid sentence while you unlocked your phone, then kept talking as though...
The Loneliness Loop: How Social Apps Sell You Connection and Deliver Isolation
You check the app when you feel lonely. The app shows you other people's lives. You feel lonelier. You check the app again. This is not a design flaw. It is, in a certain light, the engine. The...
Why You Reinstall the App You Rage-Deleted Last Week
You deleted the app in a moment of clarity. Six days later it is back. Here is the behavioral loop that makes deletion feel powerful and change nothing.
Five ways people cheat their screen-time limits (and why they don't work)
Every screen-time tool gets gamed within a week. We've watched users try all five common cheats. Here's why each one breaks down, and what catches it.
Why willpower fails at screen time
Self-control is a finite resource, and your phone is engineered to drain it. Why every "I'll just check it once" plan fails, and what behavioral economics says actually works.