Before Breakfast Boost your digital wellness, with Larz May
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Feb 25, 2026 Larz May, digital wellness leader who founded Half the Story and Ginkgo to help people reshape tech habits. He reframes screen time as a signal of unmet needs. He recommends AI-free days, handwritten notes, analog desks, phone boxes for dinners, and creative, screen-free weekends. Practical rituals and attention retraining are highlighted throughout.
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Screen Time Signals Emotional Needs
- Screen time is a surface symptom of deeper needs like anxiety, boredom, or disconnection rather than the root problem.
- Lars May urges reframing digital wellness as brain health and addressing underlying emotional needs to change outcomes.
Take One AI Free Day Each Week
- Go AI free one day a week to force your brain to engage instead of outsourcing thinking to tools like ChatGPT.
- Lars May suggests handwriting meeting notes that improve memory and prevent autopilot reliance on AI.
Use Hands-On Tasks To Prevent Multitasking
- Use a small tactile task in meetings to avoid switching attention to phones and perform better.
- Lars May carries friendship bracelet kits or coloring to commit to undivided attention and prevent multitasking.