I realized last Sunday that the reason I keep my phone face-down on the counter isn’t a habit, it’s that twenty years of being on-call for everyone trained my body to treat a screen-up phone as a job I haven’t clocked out of

AI Briefing

• – Being on-call for twenty years has conditioned the body to keep the phone face-down as a boundary against work
• – This behavior is a coping mechanism to signal the end of the workday
• – It's a way to reclaim personal space in a work environment with no clear boundaries