Digital Well-Being

How to Break Up With Your Smartphone in 2023

Use these 10 digital well-being tips to live your most intentional, meaningful, and impactful life in 2023.

Irtiza Hafiz
9 min readJan 18, 2023

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Photo by Martin Engel on Unsplash

You can make 2023 the year where you stop living a life filled with infinite scroll, passive consumption, and lost time.

Smartphones are engineered to steal our attention every second of the day.

The more eyeballs these multi-billion dollar companies can get on their apps, the more money they make. That’s why billions are poured into analyzing user behavior patterns to make apps and services as addictive as possible.

Depending on how you use your smartphone, it can be the perfect equivalent of a gambling machine or slot machine, except you put your precious time on the table instead of money.

There are billions of dollars to be made by stealing our attention. Our attention makes companies a fortune! That’s how valuable it is.

If we develop a healthy relationship with our phones, we can use this attention more intentionally on things that make the world better and our lives more meaningful.

In this blog post, I will tell you about 10 ways you can get out of this toxic relationship with…

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Irtiza Hafiz

Engineering manager who writes about software development and productivity https://irtizahafiz.com