The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App
In which John discusses Focus Friend, the (?!?!?!) most popular phone app in the United States at the moment. My concerns are real, but so is my enthusiasm. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! https://werehere.beehiiv.com/subscribe Learn more about our project to help Partners in Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone: https://www.pih.org/hankandjohn If you're able to donate $2,000 or more to this effort, please join our matching fund: https://pih.org/hankandjohnmatch If you're in Canada, you can donate here: https://pihcanada.org/hankandjohn
Video Chapters
- 0:00 Good morning! Focus Friend, the #1 app, is a ridiculous situation
- 0:28 How Focus Friend works: keeping your phone away helps a bean knit
- 1:00 Avoiding siren call of phone with Focus Friend, helping with writing
- 1:26 The best parts: great for kids, no data, and miraculously, no ads
- 1:58 Major issue: an in-app purchase for a disappointing, aging bean
- 2:42 John Bean is a 70-year-old bean! I paid for this
- 3:10 John Bean’s grey hair reflects my own increasing mortality
- 3:41 Don't make me face my demise through apps, Hank Green
- 4:25 Hank Green, you amazing, ridiculous freak, how do you do it
Original Output
0:00 Good morning! Focus Friend, the #1 app, is a ridiculous situation 0:28 How Focus Friend works: keeping your phone away helps a bean knit 1:00 Avoiding siren call of phone with Focus Friend, helping with writing 1:26 The best parts: great for kids, no data, and miraculously, no ads 1:58 Major issue: an in-app purchase for a disappointing, aging bean 2:42 John Bean is a 70-year-old bean! I paid for this 3:10 John Bean’s grey hair reflects my own increasing mortality 3:41 Don't make me face my demise through apps, Hank Green 4:25 Hank Green, you amazing, ridiculous freak, how do you do it Timestamps by McCoder Douglas