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The first 500 people to use my link in the description or scan the QR code will receive a one month free trial of Skillshare! Get started today! 👉🏻 https://skl.sh/theashfiles02261 ✨ —————— For the past year, I’ve been slowly rebuilding my relationship with my phone. I considered buying a flip phone. I went down the analog rabbit hole. I romanticized flip phones, iPods, paper planners, film cameras — the whole digital minimalism fantasy. And then I remembered I live in London. There are QR codes here, WhatsApp and moments when an Uber is not indulgent, it’s survival. So I kept my perfectly good iPhone and changed my relationship with it. I started experimenting with friction — making my iPhone slightly more inconvenient. Fewer notifications. No social media on my phone. Music on an iPod. A watch instead of “just checking the time.” Paper calendars. Film photography. Turning off autocorrect. Creating boundaries around social media instead of pretending willpower would save me. This isn’t a rejection of technology, it’s an attempt to be more intentional with it. If you’ve been curious about analog living, digital minimalism, spending less time mindlessly scrolling, or whether a dumb phone would magically fix your attention span — this is what actually happened when I tried to change my habits instead of my hardware. You don’t have to delete the internet. You just have to stop treating your phone like oxygen. —————— Get my Writing Systems & Storytelling Tools ✨ Mobile → https://stan.store/the-ashfiles Desktop → https://www.theashfiles.com —————— Essay Collections — https://bit.ly/4onmQ3I —————— TikTok - https://bit.ly/4dakJdD Instagram - https://bit.ly/3zKLmYb Substack - https://bit.ly/3EbaRnE Website - www.theashfiles.com Freewrite Typewriter - https://bit.ly/3W29yfO [affiliate link] Work with Me — hello@theashfiles.com ABOUT ME: Hi! 🙋🏼‍♀️ I’m Ash – a writer, content creator, and movie lover with a penchant for the nostalgic. I spend more time talking to my dog than actual humans, and when I’m not arguing with fictional characters, my days are spent writing endless drafts or down movie-related rabbit holes. In this little corner of the internet, I share my love for storytelling, the ups and downs of my creative process, and the sometimes ridiculous, often relatable moments that come with being a 30-something and not having it all figured out.