Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of the encrypted messaging app Telegram, recently revealed that he has ditched his smartphone. “I don’t use a phone. I haven’t used a phone for a year almost” Durov said in an interview for The Tucker Carlson Show. “I don’t carry a phone with me because I find it extremely distracting. I find [it] also potentially harming my privacy. And I also just… don’t think it’s a necessary device for me to have when I want to focus on something.”

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