Expand the WDET Family with the gift of WDET membership on behalf of someone else. Your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar and we’ll send a card letting them know that they’re on Team DET. Experts on Detroit Today advise us on how to drop the phone and re-engage with the physical world, including coming up with a management plan and not using your phone as an alarm clock. In the age of social media and Amazon ordering, it can feel like we have all become beholden to these devices that fit in our hands but crowd our brains and social interactions. And for those looking to break the digital bond, it can feel like an overwhelming task. It can feel isolating, socially. And it can feel worse when the constant info and news that scrolls across our phones doesn’t reach you. “We got these things for innocent reasons. We looked up a few years later and we’re on our phones all the time. And a lot of people are saying, ‘This is not what I signed up for.’” – Cal Newport, author Cal Newport is the author of “Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in A Noisy World,” where he addresses our dependency on social media and practical advice for achieving some digital autonomy. “W...