Jake Knapp loves tech. He grew up utilizing Apple II after which Mac computer systems, shopping bulletin boards, and making his personal video games. As an grownup, he labored at Microsoft on the Encarta CD-ROM, earlier than being employed by Google, the place he labored on Gmail, co-founded Google Meet, and created Google Ventures’ Design Dash course of. Immediately, he’s a enterprise capitalist and marketing consultant for start-ups, in addition to a author.
However, if Jake was an early adopter and booster of the upsides of know-how, he was additionally early in sensing its not-so-positive unwanted side effects. Twelve years in the past, sad with the pull his smartphone was exerting on him, he determined to curb its distractions. He continues to make use of this distraction-free cellphone immediately.
Immediately on the present, I discuss to Jake about what motivated him to alter his relationship along with his cellphone over a decade in the past and what steps he took to take action, together with how and why he lives life with out a internet browser or electronic mail app on his cellphone. We get into what realizations about work and life Jake’s gotten from having a distraction-free cellphone, why he doesn’t suppose utilizing instruments like Display Time or a dumbphone are at all times the most effective options to decreasing the cellphone itch, and the way he additionally cuts down on distractions on his desktop laptop.
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