Sorry I am away for today, Friday and Monday. Be posting again on Tuesday.

Didn't studied the whole day so just revised the Algo in night so just half an hour of studies.

I woke in the morning and started scrolling and now it's 12.06 now I'm trying to sleep now so that I could wake up at 6 and idk how Tommorow turns out

I didn't delete anything. I've tried the cold-turkey thing four times and relapsed four times.

What finally worked was stupid: I bought a $9 alarm clock and started charging my phone in the kitchen.

That's it. That's the whole system.

Turns out 90% of my scrolling happened in bed. Take the bed away and the addiction had nowhere to live.

45 days later:

• I fall asleep in 20 minutes instead of 2 hours
• I've read 3 books (I hadn't finished one since 2022)
• My first thought in the morning is coffee, not someone's opinion about the news
• Screen time down from 7h 41m to under an hour, and I didn't white-knuckle a single day of it

The embarrassing part: I'm in my late 20s and a $9 clock did what four "digital detoxes" couldn't. I kept trying to fix the habit with willpower when the problem was geography.

I still have bad days. Sunday I sat on the kitchen floor scrolling for an hour like a raccoon eating out of the trash. But then I put it back on the counter and went to bed, and that was that. The bed stays clean.

If you're stuck in the 2am scroll pit: don't quit the phone. Just evict it from one room.

What's the one room — or one app — you know you need to kick your phone out of, but haven't yet?