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On a bright, crisp day in New York City nearly five years ago, I did something a

little strange. I got a folding chair and set it up on a busy street corner and I

watched and counted. I held a couple of those little clicky things like museum

security guards use and every time I saw someone with their cell phone out I

clicked. My goal was to observe people, collect a little data and see how our

devices were changing our everyday habits. I'm a new summer ODI and this is

Note2Self, the tech show about being human and as you'd imagine I saw a lot of

people that day texting, talking or just gripping their phones. I stayed out on

the sidewalk until I had counted a thousand people and in the end one out of

every three was somehow using their phone. One out of three. I mean at the time

that was five years ago right? That seemed like a lot. Now that just seems

normal right? I mean actually kind of low because now most of us are on our phones.

What else would you do while you're walking to work? Just walk? That's pretty boring.

That day got me wondering though. We used to just walk down the street and now we

do that and all kinds of other stuff on our phones. Do small changes in our

behavior like that actually have bigger consequences. I wanted to find out and

I asked you dear listeners to help me. Twenty thousand of you joined me in 2015

for a week of self experimentation to see if tweaking our digital habits could

maybe make us more creative. Sleep better. Feel more alive. We called the

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