Optimizing Your Misery

June, 2015

JEFF BERCOVICIIs your smartphone making you stupid? Relax, there's an appfor that Every three months, Mark Zuckerberg gets on a conference call with his investors to brag about how much of the world's mental bandwidth his com­pany is monopolizing. It's an alarming amount. The average Facebook user spends 40 minutes a day liking, commenting, shar­ing and friending, mostly on mobile phones. Multi­plied across Facebook's user base of 1.3 billion people, that's more than 850 million person-hours eve...