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What to Do When You Can't Sleep

It does not involve looking at your phone.

Jami Attenberg
Dec 12, 2025
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Hi friends.

Here, sometimes, simply, is how I get ideas.

I woke up this morning at 4 AM as I (you, all of us) sometimes do and for a moment, I did not know what to do with my brain. The phone is not allowed near the bed anymore. We know this now. If we want our brains to work properly, we keep the phone away from us at night. The phone is the enemy of creativity. The phone is the enemy of creativity. I keep a stack of books by the bed instead.

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