Real Strategists Don’t Use Smartphones
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Smartphones: the strategist’s most insidious insider threat. Strategists are knowledge workers; attention is their scarce, sparse, spendable resource. Smartphones, and other mobile, ever-present, internet-linked devices, hijack human attention at the speed of “click.” These performance-degrading, digital dealers of info-dopamine consume…