We apply the Faustian Bargain to modern consumer technology.

Discover why smartphones hijack your brain and why common strategies like screen time limits fail.

How to choose when we have so many choices? In this article, we dive into the intricacies of the paradox of choice.

Discussing the components of our daily tech that have staying power.

Here we highlight the growing movement among GenZ toward more in-person interaction, less mediated by modern technology.

Our immediate thoughts after the release of Sora 2 by OpenAI

One of the biggest hurdles Users face in moving on from their iPhone (or standard Android) is the sense that they are handcuffed to it out of necessity. Switching to a “dumbphone” is all well and good in theory, but there are just certain things you need on your iPhone. It’s a genuine dilemma, as there really are some things that are non-negotiable for the average person. Yes, some can make the switch to a full dumbphone and are willing to introduce friction into their life,

What is the state of smartphone innovation as of August 2025? Is it really giving what people are asking for?

We highlight our operating system, OdysseyOS. The core of the SLEKE. phone that delivers on all its core promises.

Happy Wednesday everyone! We wanted to share a post from one of our Users here at SLEKE. One of the more rewarding aspects of building SLEKE has been seeing the common thread that has brought people to our device. There is already an inherent level of intentionality that has brought people to SLEKE, as we are a niche company and are not necessarily easy to find (for now!). But the common thread is always something rooted in thoughtfulness from our User base. There is a hunger

Happy Friday Everyone, This week, we are recommending the tremendous work from an author and researcher in the Attention Span space. Gloria Mark has a PhD from Columbia University in Psychology, specializing in Human-Computer Interaction. She writes a great newsletter here on Substack titled, The Future of Attention . The below quote is from one of her recent pieces titled, " Our brain is shaped by what we feed it: How a TikTok habit rewires our brain." "Our brains are built

Happy Friday Everyone, This week we want to highight the profound potential for time reclamation that the SLEKE phone can give you. Let's explore this through a thought experiment using simple mathematics. There is a ton of data out there on average daily screentime and the numbers seem to vary from anywhere between 2 hours to 5.5 hours per day. For the sake of this piece, we will go with 3 hours, which we believe is a conservative estimate. From our own early data gathering