Going analog

I've been cutting way back on my off-hours screen time for the last five days or so: Most days I've been analog-only, except perhaps for reading on an e-ink Kindle, until I start work around 7:45a. (That's a two-hour block of time.) I've been putting my phone away circa 7:30p, though my wife and I usually watch some television after that. I've been putting my phone away (or turning it off) while I'm at work, so that quick walks, bathroom trips, and so on are screen-free. This feels very, very good. Some notes: I'm doing this because it feels good and seems healthy. None of it is requiring willpower: it just feels like pursuing what is working and what is feeling pleasant and healthy. The proximate cause of this was not any kind of crisis, but just a routine Comcast failure. One morning, I woke up before my kids and found I had no Internet access, so I read for a while and noticed that it felt great. Posts and essays on this theme tend to emphasize human-to-human time, which is…