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The Smartphone and the mobile revolution Question You're Avoiding

Discover the uncomfortable truth about your smartphone habits. Explore ancient wisdom to reclaim focus, presence, and intentional living in the digital age

Laoziguide
What you’ll practice

This is a reflective practice guided by Laozi. It gives you one honest question to sit with — the kind that moves you from thinking about an idea to working with it.

The reflection itself unfolds in conversation with Laozi, where it adapts to your situation — so you practice it together rather than reading it off the page.

Practice this with Laozi
Begin the reflection in a coaching conversation, where it meets what you’re actually working through.
Understand first
Reverse Simplification: De-Featuring Digital LifeCyclical Time and the Infinite ScrollTemporal Emptiness: The Restored MarginThe Valley Principle: Receiving Versus BroadcastingTechnology as Mirror: Observing Our Own Nature
Go deeper
The Examined Smartphone and the mobile revolutionSmartphone and the mobile revolution: What Nobody Tells YouSmartphone and the mobile revolution: Start HereSmartphone and the mobile revolution: Questions Worth AskingSmartphone and the mobile revolution in Practice
Peri
New to this practice?

Peri can explain what this practice is for, help you decide whether it fits what you’re working through, and point you to the right place to begin.

Ready to practice this?

Begin the reflection with your coach, or tell Peri what you’re working through.