Towards a dumber smart phone
Nathan Toups has an interesting set of suggestions for a dumber smartphone, intended to retain utility while reducing their potential for addiction. They’re good ideas, but I do have a few quibbles. I think that it’s fine to retain non-addictive entertainment, in order to use the phone with e.g. a Chromecast. Thus it’s okay to have YouTube, Hulu or Netflix, but it’s still good to get rid of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram &c.
Of course, one can always use a desktop computer to watch entertainment, deliberately & intentionally (and that’s what I recommend for addictive apps like Facebook or Twitter), but at least for me the video stuff hasn’t been a problem.