Bored and Brilliant Challenge 3: Delete That App

Note to Self

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Your instructions for today: Delete that app. And listen in as our favorite casual cell phone video gamer confronts the designer of her worst addiction.

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0:00.0	Hello friend, this is an episode of Note to Self, but from when we used to be called New Text City.
0:07.0	Same good content, just the old name. Enjoy.
0:10.0	So Manouche, this is Curtis Conkey from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
0:15.0	Your new series on board and brilliant is brilliant, except for one small detail.
0:21.0	You were telling us how we were going to baseline our activities.
0:25.0	You then go on to mention that you're now addicted to a game called Two Dots.
0:31.0	Now I'm addicted to two dots when the week before I wasn't addicted to anything.
0:36.0	So that's one little flaw on your plan.
0:40.0	From WNYC, this is New Text City, where digital gets personal.
0:45.0	I'm a new summer Odie, and Curtis, I am so, so sorry.
0:50.0	And it's challenge week for the board and brilliant project.
0:54.0	So regular New Text City podcasts come out on Wednesdays, and they're usually about 20 minutes long.
1:00.0	This episode is basically a normal episode, but it's also your board and brilliant challenge.
1:06.0	Challenge number three.
1:07.0	Cool, right?
1:09.0	Flurry Analytics defines a mobile addict as someone who launches apps more than 60 times a day.
1:16.0	The average consumer launches apps 10 times a day.
1:19.0	So to qualify as having an app dependency, you've got to be pretty app crazy.
1:24.0	And the people most likely to be addicted, while according to Flurry, teens, college students, skewing female, and middle aged parents.
1:34.0	That's my demo, baby.
1:36.0	Even if you aren't tapping apps 60 times a day, we all have that one app, that one damn app, that we devote way too much time to.
1:46.0	I will find myself browsing Pinterest, no matter where I am, or really what I'm doing.
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