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Scenario

When self-monitoring becomes self-torture

My phone tracks my screen time and seeing the numbers makes me feel worse but I cannot stop checking

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The quantification of behavior often amplifies the very problems it aims to solve.

Ideas that help explain it
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