I tried ‘Bricking’ my phone to fix my brain

Aug 2, 2025 - 13:46
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I tried ‘Bricking’ my phone to fix my brain
Top down view of the Brick app on an iPhone and the key next to a pastry that’s sitting on top of a napkin.
Fixing my eroded attention span has been a journey. Brick has sort of helped.

"We need to talk." Nobody likes to hear those words from their spouse. Especially when it's delivered in a grave tone as you rot on a couch in a grubby blankie, staring like a zombie while doomscrolling.

"Wut?" I said, very intelligently.

What came next was a compassionate but firm speech about how I was in dire need of an intervention. My attention span, my spouse said, was utterly shot to hell. They'd just asked my opinion about something happening on the TV show we were watching. I hadn't heard them. At all. Apparently, they'd repeated the question three times. Instead, I'd been engrossed in… actually, I couldn't tell you.

"You have …

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