Quitting Merge Dragons and addictive smartphone games
<p>I sit on the train going over the Williamsburg bridge on my way back home to Brooklyn. Just outside the window, the New York City skyline and a million twinkling lights are passing in view:</p>
<p><img alt="New York City skyline at sunset" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1000/1*CSWBUn2uL5TrNFqTmppdMA.jpeg" style="height:514px; width:1000px" /></p>
<p>Over 60 million tourists come to the city every year just to get views like this. But I don’t look at any of that.</p>
<p>Instead, I’m dressed in black and completely engrossed in a screen about half the size of my face. I’m tap-tap-tapping on the screen and pinching and gesturing. I’m gorging on colorful visuals and drinking in shimmering sounds of affirmation and new loot.</p>
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