Ditching my phone for an LTE smartwatch was a humbling experience

Leaving the house without my phone is the stuff of nightmares. Leaving the house without my phone on purpose? Are you kidding? What if I need to take a picture of something? What will I look at if I need to wait in line? What if disaster strikes or a War of the Worlds happens? The possibilities are too overwhelming. But in the face of all this uncertainty, I (mostly) left my phone at home for the past week – on purpose.

I wanted to see if I could get by with just an LTE-enabled smartwatch, an experiment I’ve been itching to run for a while. I, like many of my fellow elder millennials, look at my phone entirely too much. It’s my job, but sti …

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