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How to be less online, and what to do with the time you get back.

start here [35] Quiet your phone [36] Things to do instead

[37] Or look at the dumbphones

[friends] all here
[flip-phone-friends] the whole group chat
[backgammon] in the sun
est.
2026

Six ways to start living slower

  • [38] Quiet the phone you own Nine steps, from deleting the apps to a bowl
    by the door. Most people should start here. free settings first →
  • [39] Fill the hours Film, letters, long walks, bread, a library card. Ideas
    for the time that comes back. or leave them empty →
  • [40] Start a club where you live How to run a regular meetup where the
    phones go in a box. There's a zine you can print. two people is a club →
  • [41] Read something long Books on attention and slowness, plus the articles
    and profiles that made this a movement. books, and the internet →
  • [42] See what the evidence says Peer-reviewed studies on sleep,
    notifications, kids and social media. The pushback is in there too. caveats
    included →
  • [43] Get a smaller phone Every dumbphone worth knowing about, with prices
    and what each one can't do. compare them side by side →

The hours you get back

[44] all of them

 1. [45] [prints] 22 Develop and hang prints
 2. [46] [letters] 22A Write an actual letter
 3. [47] [table] 23 Eat dinner slowly

 1. [48] [square] 23A Walk the same route
 2. [49] [water] 24 See people in person
 3. [50] [library] 24A Get a library card

None of these need an app or a subscription.

What the studies found

[51] every paper, with caveats

  • [52] 2x The odds of not sleeping enough, for a child who uses a phone at
    bedtime. Pooled from 20 studies and 125,198 children, all of it
    correlational. sleep →
  • [53] 10 min A cap of ten minutes a day on each social app left students
    less lonely and less depressed after three weeks than carrying on as usual.
    social media →
  • [54] 2 weeks Long enough to lift attention, mood and mental health in a
    randomized trial where 467 people blocked mobile internet and kept their
    calls and texts. cutting back →
  • [55] 52 Studies of phubbing, the habit of checking a phone while you're
    with your partner. Pooled, it goes with less satisfaction and more
    conflict. phones and partners →
  • [56] 0 The difference a silenced phone on the desk made in a preregistered
    replication. The famous 2017 experiment found one. Both stay on the page. 
    the phone on the desk →

[autumn-walk]

    The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged
    for it.

    Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

If you want a dumber phone

[57] see the whole list

I check the specs by hand. These are the ones I keep coming back to.

  • [58] the benchmark [light-phone-iii-thumb] Light Light Phone III $899
  • [59] e-ink, big battery [mudita-kompakt-thumb] Mudita Mudita Kompakt $339+
  • [60] my daily driver [dumbphone-2-thumb] dumb.co Dumbphone 2 $20
  • [61] ultra minimal [punkt-mp02-thumb] Punkt. Punkt. MP02 (4G) $299+
  • [62] cold turkey [sunbeam-f1-horizon-thumb] Sunbeam Wireless Sunbeam F1
    Horizon $250+

or straight to

  • [63] No camera, no browser
  • [64] Under $100
  • [65] Keeps WhatsApp
  • [66] E Ink screens
  • [67] Flip phones
  • [68] No Android underneath

Books I'd start with

[69] the reading list

  • [70] [digital-minimalism]
  • [71] [meditations]
  • [72] [stolen-focus]
  • [73] [how-to-do-nothing]
  • [74] [devotions]
  • [75] [wanderlust]
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There are more on the reading list. Every book gets a note on what it does well
and what it gets wrong.

Meet people who are doing the same thing

A Slower Living Club is a regular, in-person meetup for people who want to be
less online. Phones go in a box by the door. The guide covers how to invite
people and how to run the first one, and it prints as a zine.

[76] Read the club guide [77] Things to print

Three friends in winter coats and knitted hats crowded together for a photo,
the one in the middle holding a film camera up to her face and the one on the
left throwing a peace sign
last month, on film

[78] The membership certificate: a hand-drawn double border, Certificate of
Membership in big marker letters, blank lines for a name and a date, four short
pledges to tick and two signature lines

Make it official

Print it, make your pledge, and sign it.

[79] Download the certificate [80] The color one

est. 2026 Buffalo NY slower living club

A field guide to disconnecting and the life that opens up.

  • [81]Quiet your phone
  • [82]Dumbphones
  • [83]Things to do
  • [84]Start a club
  • [85]Reading
  • [86]Research
  • [87]About
  • [88]Printables
  • [89]Privacy
  • [90]Terms

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