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Can We Escape Our Internet Hell?

WithDale Davidson

Hosted byCal Newport

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the negative impact of phones on our lives is larger than we’d like to admit. Maybe it’s time to move beyond tips and hacks to explore more serious interventions. But what would these look like? In this episode, Cal dispatches correspondent Dale Davidson on a world-spanning investigation of some of the more extreme solutions people have deployed to reclaim their lives from their devices.

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(0:00) Can we escape our internet hell?

(4:36) Act 1

(27:37) Act 2

(41:40) Act 3

(1:06:46) Closing comments

Links:

Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow

Get a signed copy of Cal’s “Slow Productivity” at https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/

https://internetaddictsanonymous.org/

https://www.thatpracticalmom.com/

https://hangingup.substack.com/

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/phone-screen-time-prison-pg-sittenfeld-8c3b186b?st=JjqsTg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12978896/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9d5anXG3QM

https://hangingup.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips

https://substack.com/@camclaren/note/c-98575673

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