When using my cellphone, I tend to become a passive consumer of the internet. When using my laptop, I become an active creator of it. The difference is the input mechanisms. The friction and inefficiency of typing on a mobile device is high enough to discourage most production.
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2/ Crucially, the activation energy to simply pick up your phone is much lower than it is to open your laptop. You just slip it out of of your pocket and voila, you're ready to go. Grabbing your laptop from the other room requires you to overcome more inertia.
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3/ As a result, I often find myself doing tasks on my phone that would be much better served in the "long-term" (in task time) by just grabbing my laptop. (Of course opening your laptop isn't *that* hard—it simply requires *more* activation energy than using your phone.)
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