The Friday Peace: Leaving the Phone in the Other Room

A reflection on dice games, digital feeds, and the Instagram trial testing the difference between addiction and “problematic use.” One quiet piece for the end of the week.

The other day, I left my iPhone in another room.

I was unleashed.

I opened my laptop and started a Commodore 64 emulator. Within minutes, I was playing MicroLeague Baseball — a game that once consumed …