Q: Two months ago I upgraded from a flip phone to a smart phone, irreversibly, and it has been a huge distraction for me in terms of media consumption. How do I discipline myself out of this and back to music production? I'm ashamed of myself.
A: set some boundaries. first, do you need the phone for anything during music production? if not, then put it in a drawer. if you do actually need certain things from it during music production, then you will have to get used to setting some hard rules about never opening certain apps. the trick to getting used to this is the morning. if you can stay completely out of those apps when you first wake up, it will be much much much easier to avoid them for the rest of the work day, at least until the work day is done