HODL
· 90w
Get a mechanical watch, carry a wad of cash. Leave your phone at home. Head out into the world like this at least once a week and enjoy life without any digital bullshit. Thank me later.
It's funny, years back a client of mine had an apple watch a few weeks before they became available, and he told me how he 'was walking through Venice with al gore and was told by al 'I'm gonna get you an apple watch'. And he did.
So after the story as I stood talking to my client trying to explain whatever network problem he was having, his wrist went 'bloop!' he looked at his watch, pressed a button and then looked back at me.
I continued to explain and 30 seconds or so later his wrist went 'Bloop!' again. He looked at his 'watch' and cleared another notification.
A minute later as I continued to explain, again his watch went 'Bloop!' he turned to look at it and then back at me, and I looked him dead in his eyes and said "What is your watch making you to do now?"
This man is a competent and accomplished lawyer and business man, with more money that I'm likely to see in my life, and in less than a day, he'd become slave to a little device that he willingly strapped on to his arm.
"Simple kinda life never did me no harm" -John Denver