Seth Godin on smartphones:

The smartphone is the most expensive device most people own, and the one they use the most.

Here’s everything you can’t have, can’t afford and won’t get, right here.

Here’s everyone you want to have an argument with, one click away.

Here is every piece of bad news we can imagine, much of it imagined instead of real.

Connection is powerful and magical. It’s also enervating, subject to manipulation and addictive.