[gnicholas]

I'd be curious to know if reducing your mobile screen time has led to an increase in your desktop screen time. That is, if you're not looking at email on your phone, presumably you look at it later on the computer.

Is it the same for news reading, or do you just read less news these days?

Even if reducing mobile screen time leads to some increase in desktop screen time, it could still be a good thing for social conventions and quality face to face interactions. I'm just curious about whether we're reducing screen time overall, or just shifting it from mobile/interrupted to desktop/purposeful.

[civilitty]

It does lead to an increase in desktop time for me. I've been consciously cutting down on mobile use for HN/reddit/general web browsing throughout the day but I haven't found that I just end up doing it later on the desktop. To the contrary, I end up focusing on stuff far more productive because the desktop is a business/productivity device actually capable of more than rudimentary telecom with a screen bigger than 6.3" (at most). I'd credit that shift for helping me rediscover a love of programming that I thought I had lost a decade ago - all because I could run an IDE and code instead of just reading random blog posts while stuck in an ARM-induced quasi analysis paralysis.

I find that if I end up just playing an online desktop game or putting on the Oculus, the time I spend away from my phone is higher quality and better for my well being overall, even if it replaces something "productive" like answering work emails on my giant (and yet oh so tiny) Note8.