Everybody asks me why my phone is in grayscale. I tell them the story and show them my setup. At some point I got tired of repeating myself, so I wrote it down. It starts with a failure. Once I overrode my own website blocker for 444 minutes. Not to check something important. Just to scroll. That day I accepted something I should have accepted much earlier: willpower cracks. Every time I relied on it, it eventually broke. So I stopped relying on self discipline and started building friction instead. Maximum fun. The rest of this post is about making this boring. Trying to get my focus back is nothing new to me. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok: none of them ever had me. X on my phone is just a development news website. But staying away from those never solved anything, because my problem was never the apps. The traps are everywhere and they are intentional, built to be addictive, as The Attention Merchants describes well.…