Westover: How I broke the addiction to my Mother's Day gift

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My high\u002Dtech watch had become a tyrant: though its tight fist was encased in a glove of softest leather, I was supplicant to its demands.

I don’t know when the novelty of having my life’s metrics and communications affixed to the end of my arm began to wear on me, but recently, for the first time since I had received it, I took the thing off.I realized that as lovely as my watch is, I was inviting constant interruptions.

It didn’t give me a pat on the back on those days when I knew enough to lay off the exercise bike and take a walk instead. And if my walk wasn’t assertive enough, it didn’t meet my watch’s requirements for exercise, and therefore didn’t “count.”Article content Similarly, my watch doesn’t know when I am absorbed in a book, and to lay off the text messages that can certainly wait until I’ve finished a chapter. It doesn’t understand that I don’t need to be made aware of every “likely spam” call I get in a day — the cheapest and least fulfilling kind of interruption.

 

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