> I certainly don’t want anyone to take this article to mean “no one actually has a problem with phones or social media”. It’s worth being mindful about what role these apps play in our lives, and if we’re having trouble with procrastination because of them, we can take steps to mitigate that. But there’s a big difference between a drop in our cognitive abilities and there being something distracting in our pocket.

First off, this feels like it rings true for me, personally. Second, I feel like there is a huge confirmation bias in the click-centric, hyper-commodified world that a lot of the sites mentioned in this article operate on. The studies confirm what we think we are seeing with no real depth or rigor to the study (especially in the case of the 'goldfish' attention span anecdote).