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I'm on track to have spent 16 years of my life glued to my phone screen. That's what Bloom, the latest salve to phone addiction, tells me as I create my account.

16 years. According to my calculations, if I weren't attached to my phone's addictive mechanisms, I could have spent that time running 1,700 marathons, grabbing 2,900 cups of coffee with friends, or adding 1 or 2 more hours of sleep each night. Instead, I scroll.

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