Zoë’s Reviews > Goodbye Phone, Hello World: 65 Ways to Disconnect from Tech and Reconnect to Joy > Status Update

This is a very strange book. It purports to give ideas for things we could do other than being on our phones, some of which are clearly not serious ("With the 1,400 hours a year you'd have after giving up your smartphone, you'd have sufficient time to have sex with your partner nearly 16,000 times"). But that raises the question, is any of it serious? And if not, what's the point?

An unexpected turn: after noting that the average smartphone user spends about 14,000 hours on their phone over ten years, more than Gladwell's "10,000 hours" needed to become an expert at something, Greenberg starts talking about how we can literally convert our phone time into the development of expertise via deliberate practice. But it's precisely when I'm tired that I'm most likely to spend too long on my phone.