After reading this wildly illuminating New York Times article about digital overload and what it does to your brain (ie the stimulation provides a dopamine squirt than can be addictive) i decided to test my own addictions by simply leaving my apartment without the cell phone - big whoop you might say - but it was surprisingly hard at first. After getting past the initial pangs of being "disconnected" it started to feel liberating and even kind of refreshingly rebellious. Read on...
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