The Everyday Horror of ‘Other Minds and Other Stories’
Every morning before he writes, stashes his phone in a safe. It’s not bulletproof, but it’s serious—the , a plastic bucket with a time-locking lid originally designed for compulsive eaters, can’t be opened until the predetermined abstention is up. His laptop is no help either, thanks to productivity software that blocks his access to email and other distractions. Sims knows all of this might sound extreme. For him, that’s the point. “Everything about its red-alert, fallout-shelter containment aesthetic suits my own relationship to the internet, distraction, and procrastination,” he the writer .
