Good Advice

Instapundit Reynolds posts a Tweet by Kanye West about smart phone use. This is the second really smart thing West has been quoted as advocating. I begin to think he may become a serious influence in this society. Here is what he wrote:

Look at your phone as a tool not an obligation.
Would you walk around with a hammer in
your pocket? You would pick up a hammer
when you needed it  you would never be
addicted or obligated to it. Use your phone
like a hammer only pick it up when you need
it.

N.B., I'd include in the "need it" category your phone's use as entertainment, for example in a doctor's waiting room. It carries fewer germs than the People magazine someone sick with flu or strep put down just as you entered.