Not Just Your Monthly Subscription Fee: The Price We Pay for Tech
The new (and alliteratively named) coach of the Arizona Cardinals, Kliff Kingsbury, is introducing a team policy in which players’ meetings will be punctuated with regular twenty-to-30-minute cell phone breaks. He believes that this is the best way to hold players’ attention: “You start to see kind of hands twitching and legs shaking, and you know they need to get that social media fix, so we’ll let them hop over there and then get back in the meeting and refocus.” These are grown men who have spent thousands of tedious hours practicing a game until they’ve mastered it, and yet