Hey Hunters! Richard here. I checked my daily screen time and it showed 10+ hours.
*Apple Screen Time screenshot in the comments if anyone wants it.

But, what does 10 hours a day on the phone compute when accounting for an entire average lifespan? And what could I have done if I could just curb it down.

I built the Doomscroll Calculator to answer that very question.

I plugged the 10 hours into the calculator. Brace yourself:
→ 30.7 years of waking life will go to my phone.
→ 25,672 books I'll never read.
→ 1,198 marathons I'll never run.
→ 300 languages I'll never speak.

I love reading. I love running. The numbers are absurd because 10+ hrs/day IS absurd. That's the point of the calculator — make the absurd cost feel real.

The problem I built this for: "phones are bad" content makes you feel guilty for 10 minutes, then nothing changes. Guilt isn't a behavior-change tool. The hypothesis was — if you translate phone time into 60 specific things you'll miss (books, marathons, songs, dates, travel), it might land where abstract "wasted hours" doesn't.

25 of the 60 cite primary sources (FSI, CDC, WHO, Hal Higdon, BLS, AAP, NAPO, Iris Reading). The rest are labeled "reasoned estimate" — Honesty is the best policy 😇.

The bottom half of the page is the hope half: drag the green slider to see what you'd reclaim if you cut back. That's the actual takeaway. The doom is the hook, the hope is the point.

This is my second PH launch. First was Habit Doom in April (67th place, 21 upvotes — humbled). I'm back because the calculator is the strongest argument I can make for why screen time isn't abstract. It's 30.7 years of MY life.

Made with spite for doomscrolling.

Try it: habitdoom.com/doomscroll-calculator/

What's your number? I'm at 30.7 years. I'd love to know I'm not the only one this far gone.

Doomscroll Calculator (by Habit Doom)

How many years will your phone steal from you?

How many years will your phone steal from you?