Ben Goldhersh

Ben Goldhersh appears in Trying to stay off your phone? There’s an app for that as a heavy user of screen-limiting tools and co-founder of Matter Neuroscience. He says he has tried lockbox phone cases, Brick, Freedom software, and other tools, but still finds the phone difficult to avoid because it is both useful and magnetically engaging.

Goldhersh’s “Staff of Destiny” makes Screen Time Friction literal: a phone case screwed into a large walking stick makes casual scrolling inconvenient. Matter Neuroscience’s proposed six-pound phone case turns that same idea into a commercial product.

Connections

• Matter Neuroscience - company he co-founded in the source.
• Marketplace Tech and Maria Hollenhorst - show and reporter context.
• Digital Detox Economy and Screen Time Friction - market and design frame for his experiments.
• Attention Industrialization - broader reason his anti-scrolling tools matter.