It’s Time to Take a Look at Your Digital Habits It’s time to talk about digital addiction. Maybe when you think of digital addiction you think of hardcore gamers glued to their computer screens for 18 hours a day and maybe that’s not you, but how much time do you spend checking your phone? Email?…
How to Block Pokémon Go Pokémon GO. What started as a reaction to a harmless 2014 Google April Fools joke, has rapidly become a worldwide phenomenon. With over 60 million installs and 10 million daily active users, it’s not uncommon to find clusters of millennials glued to their phone screens in seemingly random locations across the…
Productivity’s Ultimate Reward: The Joy of Creating We’re never more productive than when we’re obsessively focused on something. The product of focused work can be great: solving a hard problem, launching and growing a company, writing a book or blog, creating music, cultivating strong relationships… One reward of that intense productivity is something elusive that…
Favorite Reads 1.0: Habits, Distraction & Productivity At Freedom, our mission is to “make technology less distracting.” While our core product gives people the ability to block digital distractions, our daily search for knowledge is focused on deeply understanding the human relationship with technology and how we can change habits. Below are few of our favorite reads that…
3 Psychological Factors Impacting Your Productivity You just sat down at your desk and are ready to tackle that report. You log into your computer, check Slack and your email, get distracted by a New York Times update on your phone, scroll through some tweets, and read an article about “7 Superfoods That Help with…