I lost my phone on a Lyft ride last Thursday. Got off a ride, went upstairs, checked my watch and noticed it was disconnected from phone, realized phone lost in car, used “Find My iPhone” to locate\/beep\/lock my phone, filed a Lyft support ticket and they contacted the driver, driver said he didn’t see any phone, end of story.<\/p>\n
Since then, I’ve been rocking a “phone-free life”. I started reading a paper book on subway and actually made good progress, although I reflectively yawn a lot when reading a paper book these days. I use an old iPad as bed alarm and for WeChat. I use Google Hangout for making calls and receiving calls<\/strong>, which means I sit in front of a computer to wait when I’m expecting a call, just like sitting in front of a phone in old days.<\/p>\n What I miss most without phone:<\/p>\n But, it’s indeed relieving and freeing. When I’m offline, walking on street, taking a subway, my subconsciousness knows no one is able to contact me at that moment. No phone call, no message, no email, no Slack. Think about it. I haven’t had this “luxury” for many years.<\/p>\n Maybe I’ll choose to accidentally leave my phone at home one day a week from now on?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I lost my phone on a Lyft ride last Thursday. Got off a ride, went upstairs, checked my watch and noticed it was disconnected from phone, realized phone lost in car, used “Find My iPhone” to locate\/beep\/lock my phone, filed a Lyft support ticket and they contacted the driver, driver said he didn’t see any… Continue reading Phone-Free Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[867],"class_list":["post-11735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-myeasylife","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Q1al-33h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n