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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I started keeping a list of activities to get myself off my phone. My days are more satisfying, and my screen time is down.

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I have found that starting an activity list made me happier and got me off my phone more often.

David Rockower

Yondr's CEO, who makes cellphone pouches for schools and concerts, uses only a flip phone — and stays off social media

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Graham Dugoni, CEO of Yondr, the company that makes phone pouches for schools.

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Banning phones in school is the easy part. The hard part is what to do about social media.

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For white-collar prisoners who just can't disconnect, $3,000 contraband cellphones can literally fall from the sky

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White-collar criminals pay thousands and ignore huge risks to keep a cellphone in prison.

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Russian soldiers are relying heavily on their personal cellphones to wage war in Ukraine even though it risks getting them killed

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Russian military officers look at their smartphones while walking past the Kremlin in Moscow on April 24.
Russian military officers look at their smartphones while walking past the Kremlin in Moscow in April 2024.

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