Grayscale phone display
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Grayscale phone display has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Sahar YousefCognitive neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and founder of the Becoming Superhuman Lab, specializing in productivity and cognitive neuroplasticity
Yousef reports that her lab found putting phones in grayscale for three weeks reduced phone use by about an hour a day.
“And we saw, on average, people spent one hour less on their phones every single day”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 45:31
Podcasts
- The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 1 episode
Episodes
Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefThe Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 14 min
Steven Bartlett and neuroscientist Sahar Yousef discuss phone addiction, tech design that hijacks attention, focus sprints, chronotypes, multitasking costs, and AI's threat to independent thinking.