In late 2024, I briefly went phoneless after losing my iPhone. For that month, armed only with a notebook, I found writing to be slow, boring, but thoughtful (if the person has a story). Having no iPhone was inconvenient (especially when travelling from Toronto to Miami to the Bahamas to LA). Yet it reminded me that constraints are necessary to make good art. This experiment shaped my decision to draft all future newsletters first by hand.

experiments, stories, and haikus for people curious enough to read: paragraph.xyz/@oversky

did you enjoy the time traveling without your phone?

I had a flip phone while travelling so wasn’t off the grid completely. The only thing I miss was not being able to take pics but I def did enjoy it. I did cool things that I never ended up recording. Also came across so many problems that could be easily solved with a phone but that made the travel fun