Why does my phone talk more than we do?

Your phone speaks more than ten voices a day. Each one interrupts, and you decide, again and again, whether to answer. You never chose this chorus. It arrived app by app, quietly, and you let it stay. A single ping is small. Ten make a flood. Water dripping on stone seems harmless too, until the stone is hollow. The phone was once a plain block, uncarved. Every app carved another notch into it, and no one asked if the carving was needed. This is not a willpower problem. It is an untouched settings menu. Do this alone and you will forget within a week. Do it with the people who share your work, and the change holds — because you made it visible to each other.