Are Phones Spiders?!

Read this in Crag Mod’s Ridgeline newsletter 139.

I haven’t slept with a phone near my bed in over a decade. I don’t say that sanctimoniously, it’s just a fact — I don’t let anything internet-connected into bed with me. I feel no desire to do so. It’s hardly even a “decision” at this point. I also don’t fill my bed with spiders before getting into it.

That last sentence is great. Spiders! That’s a good metaphor.

Of course I’m writing this in the small hours of the morning on my phone...