As I was drafting this sentence, my phone buzzed. With no thought processes kicking in, my hand reached out to grab it. My mind had already started racing with questions: is it critical?, who is it from?, will it be rewarding? Even before looking at the screen, I could start to sense that small surge of excitement. It was a notification about my food delivery driver approaching the location. Not exactly earth-shattering notifications. Yet, I…

I knew I was facing problems in my marriage when my wife and I resorted to hanging out on different devices at night. It wasn’t the screens per se that led to the fault lines – it was the content that was being displayed. To be more specific, the color schemes. I am a devoted dark mode user; the sort of person who has every app, browser, and operating system set to that sleek, battery-saving…