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You Don't Need a Smartphone: A Practical Guide to Downgrading Your Phone and Upgrading Your Life

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In this revelatory manifesto, anti-tech activist August Lamm gives you the courage and confidence to ditch your smartphone once and for all.

“The essential guide to putting down your phone - and coming back to real life.”
-Catherine Price, #1 NYT bestselling author of How to Break Up With Your Phone


When I owned a smartphone, my life was bad. I knew this. What I did not know was that I had a choice.

August Lamm wasted her youth on the internet. In her late twenties, burnt out as a social media...