Put the phone face down at dinner. The people across from you won’t be there on the screen forever.

A meal with people in it is a small window that will not repeat in that exact shape. Tables change, people move out, schedules scatter, and the ordinary dinners turn out to have been the thing. A phone face up does not ruin any of that. It just quietly takes the top layer of your attention off it, every single time.

Turn it over for the length of one meal, not as a rule for everybody else, just as your own. Ask somebody at that table a question you have never asked them.