Your Phone Is Stealing the Life You Actually Want | Cal Newport

Cal Newport, computer science professor and author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, explains how constant phone use has dismantled our ability to concentrate and connect. He shares results from a 1,600‑reader experiment: half found no value in social media and quit, and of those who kept it, 95% moved it to a weekly desktop session. The episode also explores the fivefold rise in campus anxiety when smartphones arrived, and Lewis describes leaving his phone behind in Hawaii and feeling zero anxiety for the first time in fifteen years.