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April 16, 2026 – Venture capitalist Sahil Bloom broke his phone addiction with three relatively simple, if disciplined, and at times painful steps: Using grayscale mode to make the screen less colourful. Creating no-phone zones. Adopting a few strategic rules that made it less easy to just reach for the mobile.
April 16, 2026 – Venture capitalist Sahil Bloom broke his phone addiction with three relatively simple, if disciplined, and at times painful steps:
Using grayscale mode to make the screen less colourful
Creating no-phone zones
Adopting a few strategic rules that made it less easy to just reach for the mobile
The result was screen time reduced by about 70 per cent and the number of times he picked up the phone cut in half.
He figures in the first month that meant reclaiming about 134 hours of time that had been previously wasted. Over a year, that would mean 68 days of awake hours regained. “This was the single most powerful behaviour change I’ve ever made in terms of the tangible impact and ripple effects on my life,” he writes on his blog.
Only his wife knew about his experiment but within two weeks he had received multiple comments from family members – including his mother and in-laws – about his perceived presence, happiness and lower stress levels. They assumed something was going well in his work or life. He told them it was simpler: “I just didn’t have my phone on me!”
