The Cocaine Phone
The Cocaine Phone | How To Feel Fucking Amazing howtofeelfuckingamazing.com The Smartphone Experiment The Cocaine Phone You wouldn't snort cocaine on the bus. But you'll doom scroll for forty minutes before you've even got out of bed. Everyone has a smartphone. Everyone knows it's doing something to them. And yet here we all are, faces down, thumbs moving, consuming an endless river of content that we won't remember in four minutes. We know it's a problem. We've known for years. And we keep doing it anyway. Sound familiar? It should. Because that's not a phone habit. That's an addiction. And your phone has been engineered — deliberately, expensively, by some of the smartest people on the planet — to work exactly like cocaine. Variable rewards. Unpredictable dopamine hits. The notification you didn't expect. The like that arrives at just the right moment. The scroll that never ends because ending it...