Dumb phones, smart business: Meet the 28-year-old entrepreneur selling retro tech to Gen Z

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London Jackson is the CEO of Kickback
London Jackson is the CEO of Kickback.

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Gen Z are paying strangers around the world to send them handmade mail

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A woman holds huge piles of green envelopes
Snail mail clubs that cost around $10 a month are giving subscribers respite from doomscrolling.

Hannah Gustafson

I bought disposable cameras for an anniversary trip with my husband. Using them brought us closer together.

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The author and her husband in St. Augustine, FL.
The author admitted framing photos took some extra thought when using a disposable camera (as shown above), but the experience brought her and her husband closer together on a recent trip.

Courtesy of Ashley Archambault.

Papier's CEO bet on analog, and it's paying off

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Taymoor Atighetchi, founder and CEO of Papier, writes on a notecard while sitting down.
Taymoor Atighetchi is the founder and CEO of stationery brand Papier.

Papier

I'm a millennial who ditched my smartphone for a month. I made new friends and ended up keeping my flip phone.

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Maneesha Panja
Maneesha Panja, a 30-year-old tech product leader, swapped her smartphone for a flip phone. She hasn't switched back since.

Maneesha Panja

These Gen Z artists cracked the code to getting a stable paycheck: snail mail clubs

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Hands folding letters.
Gen Z artists have figured out how to lock in a stable stream of income: snail mail clubs.

Kiki Klassen

AI was eroding trust in my classroom — so I got rid of typed papers and bought my students notebooks instead

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Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer poses for camera against grey backdrop
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer believes writing with hand is something everyone should practice.

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My husband and I started doing adult paint-by-numbers to get off our phones. The hobby's benefited us more than we expected.

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Woman and man smiling in front of bookshelves
My husband and I have been working on paint-by-numbers together to stay off of our phones.

Tawnya Gibson

I'm a Gen Z who ditched my smartphone alarm for a $16 clock, and it completely changed my mornings

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Roya Shahidi poses with analog alarm clock in bedroom
I was sick of wasting my time on my phone in the mornings. So I got an alarm clock.

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Tired of doomscrolling? It's time to start using an 'analog bag.'

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An analog bag
Analog bags are all the rage on TikTok.

Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BI

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