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My First Year Without an iPhone
Changing your mind, thinking deeply, and winning back your time
I considered my family as pretty slow to adopt the technologies of modern life, but that didn’t change my school system popping an iPad mini into my hands at the ripe age of 13 (I recently tried to explain Flappy Bird to my millennial husband… awkward), and even before that, I had been on Facebook and MySpace since I was 9 or 10. I have a long commute and I’m an audiobook reviewer so I get a slew of MP3s monthly, and they are super easy to listen to through my flip phone or the derelict iPhone 5 with a shattered screen that I keep plugged in my glove box that has no battery life, is too old to update and can’t download any apps. Following guides from Vogue or NYT that shepherd you from hip cafes to sleek, modern restaurants always makes me feel like I’m having the same indistinguishable vacation over and over in cities stripped of personality by global monoculture, but that’s just moi
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