Turn your phone off for a full day and you’ll meet someone you haven’t talked to in a while: you.

A full day without a phone is less about the phone and more about what fills the space it leaves. Thoughts you have been interrupting for months finally get to finish. Some of them are boring. A few are the ones you have been avoiding, and they turn out smaller than they were when they only got fifteen seconds at a time.

Pick a day with nothing critical in it and tell one person where you will be. Leave the phone off rather than face down. Notice what you think about in the first hour and in the fifth, because they will not be the same.