Flip Phone Diaries

Flip Phone Diaries

Think you could survive without your smartphone for 7 days? Hear stories from brave folks who have taken First Week Flip Phone: the smartphone detox challenge!

  • 20 minutes 44 seconds
    November special
    Laurence takes Flip Phone Diaries on the road - to Puebla, Mexico for the Fulbright conference Want to take the 7-day smartphone detox challenge yourself? firstweekflipphone.com
    4 December 2018, 8:34 am
  • 20 minutes 47 seconds
    October pre-detox
    Want to take the 7-day smartphone detox challenge yourself? firstweekflipphone.com October - the Chicago holiday edition https://qz.com/1253379/how-much-would-you-pay-to-use-facebook-google-and-wikipedia-a-new-study-tries-to-find-out/
    9 November 2018, 10:23 pm
  • 19 minutes 55 seconds
    September post-detox
    flipph.one/shortcut getshortcut.co flipph.one/experience-tube flipph.one/time-well-spent Gray screen: iOS: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut (bottom) > Color Filters. This allows you to quickly triple-tap the home button to toggle grayscale on and off, so you keep color when you need it. flipph.one/tech-timeout
    24 October 2018, 11:13 pm
  • 37 minutes
    September pre-detox
    Want to take the 7-day smartphone detox challenge yourself? firstweekflipphone.com On this month's episode we discuss how similar smartphones mimic cocaine addiction with a neuroscientist. futurescope.com "Huffington's post": flipph.one/ariana Gamification app: flipph.one/forest Kick the habit strategies: flipph.one/addiction
    12 September 2018, 7:52 am
  • 30 minutes 44 seconds
    August post-detox w/ Zach Etahiri & D.Long

    Why do we keep touching our pockets all the time? Are we like frogs in boiling water when we use our smartphones? New York Times piece: flipph.one/NYT-focus Adam Georgiou's (flipphone.me/diaries/#/adam) call to action: quitsocial.media You've heard him. Now go cop Zach's visuals: zachetahiri.com

    29 August 2018, 1:42 am
  • 21 minutes 6 seconds
    August pre-detox
    SPECIAL GUEST: Boulder photographer zachetahiri.com Do flip phones work at 8000 feet? Who is Flip Phone Diaries new James May? Is Facebook the new McDonalds? Links: flipph.one/FastCompany flipph.one/CompulsionTest firstweekflipphone.com
    10 August 2018, 8:03 am
  • 13 minutes 44 seconds
    July post-detox
    First Week Flip Phone: The Smartphone Detox Join the mailing list: http://eepurl.com/dAhu_f Apps & rats! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44640959 https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2947358 Smartphone detox... how about a data detox? https://datadetox.myshadow.org/en/detox https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rL6gDRzMzcUPjIUL98z_dDJ02GzjZ5c0 (photo removed from Google search!) Smartphone meditation?! https://www.npr.org/2018/07/07/625332469/many-look-to-buddhism-for-sanctuary-from-an-over-connected-world
    19 July 2018, 11:04 pm
  • 15 minutes 52 seconds
    July pre-detox
    Laurence and Tushar end up making another challenge to each other Give the data detox a go: https://datadetox.myshadow.org/en/detox Nobide's meditative tunes: https://nobide.fm/
    19 July 2018, 10:59 pm
  • 12 minutes 56 seconds
    June post-detox
    Tushar finds this week particularly difficult without a smartphone due to a Flip phone Fail
    16 June 2018, 12:34 pm
  • 12 minutes 42 seconds
    June pre-detox
    Where Laurence and Tushar discuss how things have changed now they're back in the world of smartphones like everyone else
    11 June 2018, 10:35 pm
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