Catherine Price

Caught herself reaching for her phone while holding her newborn daughter, and turned the shame of that into thirty days of instructions.

How to Break Up with Your Phone rests on one point: these devices are built by very clever people to be hard to put down, which makes willpower the wrong tool entirely. The interventions are practical: greyscale, notification audits, physical distance at night.

Price has written on nutrition and on fun since, and the earlier science journalism shows in how carefully she handles the attention research.