Short, honest reads on attention, screen time, and getting your hours back — plus how the disc works.
Norma is a stainless-steel disc that blocks the apps you choose when you scan it with your iPhone. Here's what it is, how it works, and why focus works better as an object.
Screen Time limits, App Library, grayscale, Focus — every built-in iOS tool helps for a day, then quietly fails. Here’s why they share one weakness, and the single change that makes stopping the scroll last.
That ‘Notifications Silenced’ line in Messages isn’t a bug and you haven’t been blocked. Here’s exactly what it means, why it appears, how to turn it off in seconds — and the one time you should leave it on.
Opal is software, Brick is a plastic tap-to-block device, and Norma is a steel disc you scan. Same goal, three trade-offs — and on the ones that matter, Norma comes out ahead.
Norma is 270 grams of machined stainless steel you scan with your iPhone. Here’s why the weight, the material, and a passive NFC chip with no battery make a block you’ll actually keep.
The average phone pulls four-plus hours a day out of you, engineered, not accidental. Here's the behavioral science behind it, and the one change that gets the time back.
Screen Time, Opal, one sec, Freedom: they all live inside the phone you're trying to escape. Here's how a physical disc compares, point by point, and why the off switch location decides everything.
Not another list of willpower tips. The one principle that makes a screen-time change finally stick, backed by behavioral science, and a simple method to use it today.
A glance at your phone is never just a glance. Here's the hidden tax every interruption charges your attention: the science of attention residue, and why it quietly adds up to hours.
