Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications
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- I have always been an iPhone girl, and I probably always will be an iPhone girl.
- Anybody in LA knows if you have to cross the 405 in either direction, you don’t want to have to go back and forth during the day.
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Illustration: Òscar Climent Ollet; Getty Images Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story If there’s one thing that’d convince someone to be mindful about their news consumption, it’s becoming the maligned subject of a political scandal at 24 years old. So when Google began offering news alerts in 2003, Monica Lewinsky made the deliberate decision not to partake. “In the first handful of years, when there was still legal stuff happening, I would panic if I was away from my phone and I had a lot of missed calls,” Lewinsky says. “I would think, Oh, I’ve been indicted, or something’s happened.’’ It’s not surprising, then, that Lewinsky has “never been a notifications person.” Now a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the host of the podcast Reclaiming With Monica Lewinsky, she tells WIRED how her drafts folder helps with impulse control and why an iPad is key to surviving LA traffic.
I have always been an iPhone girl, and I probably always will be an iPhone girl.
I also have an iPad Air. Anybody in LA knows if you have to cross the 405 in either direction, you don’t want to have to go back and forth during the day. So I probably mostly use my iPad when I know I’m going to be out for the day. I have a little iPad holder stand doohickey so that I can do my Zooms from the car.