Jonathan Steingraber

Every Man needs to hear this 💯

Exactly

I broke my phone addiction in 30 days. • Screen Time down ~70% • Phone pickups down ~50% I reclaimed 4 hours 30 minutes per day. That's 1,635 hours across a full year. 68 days of life from a single behavior change. Here's exactly what I did (save this): 1. Grayscale Mode Put your phone on Grayscale Mode for the entire day. Grayscale Mode removes the colors to make your phone immediately less appealing and addicting. It takes 30 seconds to set up. If you have an iPhone, follow these steps: • Settings • Accessibility • Display & Text Size • Color Filters -> On • Grayscale Next, create a simple shortcut: • Settings • Accessibility • Accessibility Shortcut • Color Filters Now, if you triple-click the side button, you'll be able to toggle it on and off. For non-iPhone users, you can find instructions​ with a simple search. I kept my phone on Grayscale at all times and only removed it for specific reasons (like posting something that required me to see the color, looking at photos, etc.). It made me less interested in grabbing my phone for the random "just checks" during the day. 2. No-Phone Zones Set specific locations, times, and events where you won't have your phone on you. I called them No-Phone Zones: • Downstairs (kitchen, living room) • Creative flow time (from ~5-8am) • Family flow time (from ~5-7pm) • Family gatherings During these windows, my phone would be in a lock box or in a drawer in my office. If we were out at a family gathering, I would leave it in the car or in my wife's bag where I couldn't feel it. Specifically listing out these No-Phone Zones had the benefit of making it a clear rule that I could cement in my mind. Create your list of No-Phone Zones. Write it down if you need to. 3. Strategic Friction Even with the Grayscale Mode and No-Phone Zones, my phone addiction intervention would have been difficult to execute without this final piece of the puzzle. Motivation and discipline are never enough when you're trying to crack a deeply entrenched behavior. There's a theory in cognitive science called Choice Architecture, which is the idea that you can design your environment to make good choices easier and bad choices harder. Basically, I wanted to add strategic friction to make it much easier to adhere to my rules (and much more difficult to break them). Three primary ways I did that: 1. I locked my phone in a ​lock box​ during my morning creative flow (5-8am) and evening family flow (5-7pm). It was a timed lock so I couldn’t get it without emailing the company. 2. I left my phone far away from where I was going to be working. If I wanted to get it, I'd have to walk to the other side of the house or down a few flights of stairs to get it. 3. I added really low screen time restrictions to social apps. If I wanted to overuse them, I'd have to keep approving more time, which felt like letting myself down when I did it. Breaking the addiction is going to be difficult at first. Create strategic friction that helps you stick to the change. Make it difficult to make a bad choice. The Life Impact I'm not going to sugarcoat it at all: This was the single most powerful behavior change I've ever made in terms of the tangible impact and ripple effects on my life. That is not an exaggeration. I was more present, less stressed, and able to connect on an entirely different level. In short, I showed up more aligned with how my ideal self would. My capacity for deep work expanded significantly from simply placing my phone in another room or a lock box. I got more done, faster, at a higher quality bar. It was like the holy trinity of productivity improvement, with no fancy productivity tool required. Reviewing the research, this isn't surprising: There is clear ​scientific evidence​ that even having your phone in your pocket or on your desk reduces your cognitive capacity. I felt happier and less stressed immediately upon making the change. So, just keeping score... This was a single, zero cost behavior change that had the net effect of: • Improving my relationships • Improving my work • Improving my happiness To be completely transparent, just a few days in, the only negative thought I had related to the intervention was simple: Why didn't I do this sooner? I hope this is the push you need to make this change in your life. Start small and stick to it. Aim for a 10-20% screen time reduction week-over-week. Keep yourself accountable with a friend. Having now gone through it, I can guarantee you'll see and feel the positive impact immediately. Onward and upward.

@elonmusk It has driven me around 70% of the time I have owned it. Unreal honestly and something I am super grateful for.

Tesla self-driving is a game-changer

Yesterday, I explained how seven insurance firms in London shut down one-fifth of the world's oil supply. Today, Trump may have just made the most aggressive sovereign insurance play in modern history. Here's what happened and why it matters: Trump ordered the U.S. Development Finance Corporation to immediately offer political risk insurance and guarantees to all maritime trade through the Gulf. Especially energy. Backed by Navy escorts if needed. Read that through the lens of what I described yesterday. The Strait didn't close because of missiles. It closed because the insurance market collapsed. P&I clubs pulled coverage, reinsurers withdrew, and the entire commercial shipping architecture froze. This move doesn't address the military problem. It addresses the actuarial one. The DFC is stepping into the void that Lloyd's and the London reinsurance market created when they pulled out. The U.S. government is effectively saying: we will underwrite what the private market won't. No sovereign has attempted to replace the global marine war risk market in real time during an active conflict. Here's why the structural implications are significant: 1. It challenges Lloyd's dominance. For centuries, London has been the center of gravity for marine insurance. Lloyd's and its reinsurers controlled pricing, terms, and risk appetite for global shipping. That concentration is exactly what made the actuarial blockade possible. A handful of firms in one city froze global oil flows. The DFC offering competitive political risk coverage to all shipping lines is a direct challenge to that architecture. If American-backed insurance proves cheaper and more reliable during crises, shippers may not return to London when the dust settles. 2. It breaks the actuarial blockade. I said yesterday that China has massive leverage over Iran but zero leverage over Lloyd's. The same was true of every oil-producing and oil-consuming nation watching their economies choke. This goes around the insurance market entirely. If the DFC covers the voyage and the Navy escorts the tanker, the ships sail. Oil flows. The spreadsheet blockade breaks. 3. It redirects billions in premium revenue. War risk premiums in the Gulf are currently running at extreme multiples — 3× to 5× pre-conflict rates. Those premiums were flowing to London reinsurers who then pulled coverage anyway. Now those premiums flow to Washington. At rates the DFC can set below the panicked London market, while still generating substantial returns. The same shippers get cheaper coverage. The revenue just changes continents. 4. It creates a chokepoint within the chokepoint. The Strait of Hormuz is already the world's most critical energy bottleneck. If the U.S. is both insurer and naval escort, America controls access at two levels: physical security and financial coverage. No other nation can replicate that. You need the world's dominant navy and a sovereign balance sheet large enough to backstop the risk. Only one country has both. 5. It reassures every stakeholder simultaneously. Gulf producers were watching exports freeze. Asian and European consumers were watching energy prices spike. Both feared the Iran campaign would wreck their economies. One announcement addressed all of them: your oil will move, your ships will be covered, and the rates will be reasonable. Yesterday I described a system with no TARP, no Fed equivalent, no backstop at global scale. This may be the first attempt to build one in real time, during the crisis itself. The actuarial blockade just met a sovereign counterparty.

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@Barchart Where? Not New Jersey

BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Housing Market Home Sellers now outnumber Buyers by more than 600,000, the largest gap ever recorded 🤯👀

@holmisthename You must not be in the real estate business

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@xrpmickle Thats absurd. I was wiping down groceries in my garage in a mask during COVID wondering wtf is happening in the world. Dont tell me because Trump is charging tariffs we are more uncertain then back then. I call B.S.

Insanity.

@BSCNews @DecryptMedia @Ripple needs to get a full refund

🚨BREAKING: EPSTEIN EMAILS REVEAL PLANNED CRYPTO MEETING WITH GENSLER BEFORE RIPPLE LAWSUIT Newly surfaced emails show Jeffrey Epstein discussing a planned meeting with former US SEC Chairman, Gary Gensler, about digital currencies in 2018, according to @DecryptMedia. The exchange predates Gensler’s later role leading the SEC. Epstein told Lawrence Summers that Gensler “wants to talk digital currencies.” The files do not confirm whether the meeting ultimately took place. Two years later, in December 2020, the SEC sued @Ripple, prompting major U.S. exchanges to suspend $XRP trading.

@allenanalysis So while Democrats were in office they had this information and they didn't release it? That is pretty hard to believe.

🚨 MAJOR BOMBSHELL: Ted Lieu says the full, unreleased Epstein files show Donald Trump R*PING children. That’s what’s being hidden. That’s why the files stay sealed. That’s why there are no arrests. Release everything. Let the truth come out. Or RESIGN!

I need you to get mad. What don’t you understand? The democrats gerrymandered our maps for decades, while Republicans sat back and watched — “Midwest nice” — “Utah nice.” The democrats took down our borders, cut down fences, and allowed millions of illegal aliens to invade us. Then, they used the illegal immigration invasion to overcrowd our schools, hospitals, and housing. Then, the democrats counted them — illegal aliens — in the Census for the specific purpose of diluting American votes — taking away House seats from legal Americans. With 500,000 homeless and 50,000 homeless veterans, democrats pushed Americans into the streets and welcomed their new voters into taxpayer-funded homes and hotels. Democrats watched as illegal aliens murdered our people; from rapes, to DUI, to death by opioids. They welcomed the Cartel and MS-13 to grow like a cancer within our country. We are nothing to the democrat party. Their own voters are nothing to them. Just pawns — just chess pieces in a game stacked against the American people. Then, they tried to bankrupt President Trump. Then, they stole an election from him. Then, they fried to remove him from the ballot. Then, they tried to imprison him. Then, they tried to kill him. Through immense peaceful blood, sweat, and tears, we gave President Trump the POPULAR vote in 2024. We won everything — except Senate seats down ballot because it was never in the plan to allow us a 60-seat threshold. Democrats may be a lot of things, but they know Republican Senators will always be weaker than they are. Now, with a Republican White House, House, and Senate, our weak Republican Senate is on the verge of giving democrats ultimate power. Even in control, Republican Senators are incapable of wield powering and delivering victories. With 84% of Americans in agreement for photo ID and proof of citizenship, spineless jellyfish would rather deliver decline than seize this great opportunity handed to them on a golden platter. Why aren’t you shouting to the rooftops? Why are you scrolling social media instead of writing letters? Why aren’t you planning a peaceful trip to DC to meet with your Members of Congress? Why are you not calling and texting everyone you know to empower them to take action? Courage is contagious. We, American people, will simple not tolerate inaction. We expect results. We demand results. We will not sit back and watch our Republican Senate hand victories to the democrats because they are too busy taking weeks off instead of daring to work on behalf of the American people. Get mad. Be peaceful, but — for the love of our nation — take peaceful, positive action.

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🔥 BREAKING: The White House just said Marco Rubio's blockbuster speech in Munich is getting MASSIVE PRAISE worldwide, posting all 22 minutes of it Rubio dropped some absolutely incredible quotes in front of Europe. KEEP DEFENDING THE WEST, MARCO! 🇺🇸

The Save Act doesn’t make it harder to vote. The Save Act makes it harder to cheat.

I’m just going to go ahead and say it. When we pass the SAVE America Act into law — because we will — it will be in part because @elonmusk purchased Twitter and created X. This monumental, organic, peaceful pressure campaign would have never been possible without him.

If we're the working-class backbone of America—grinding every day, paying our taxes honestly—why the hell are we still forced to fund endless government fraud, waste, and corruption? Our hard-earned dollars disappear into black holes: billions laundered through fake nonprofits, fake charities, fake aid programs, and insider scams, while roads crumble, vets wait for care, and families struggle to put food on the table. We get audited and threatened with jail for a $500 mistake. Meanwhile, the people handling TRILLIONS face zero real accountability—no mass arrests, no clawbacks, no consequences. This isn't a tax problem. It's a THEFT problem. Why keep feeding a system that treats honest taxpayers like ATMs for crooks and cronies? Time to demand: - Real audits - Fraud prosecutions - Zero tolerance for waste Or better yet: stop the bleeding first, then talk about what we "owe." Who's with me?

Members of Congress use ID and a secure system to cast votes because high-stakes decisions require identity verification and an auditable record. That’s standard practice when power is on the line. Public elections are upstream of all that power. They decide who gets to sit in those seats and press those buttons. If identity verification is normal for lawmakers, it should be normal for the elections that put them in office.