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how much life
are you giving away?

the average person will spend 13 years looking at a screen. but that's the average. your number might be worse. drag the sliders and find out.

drag the sliders to see your numbers
4.5h
1h12h
30
1375

if you change nothing

9.4

years on screens

3,422

days lost

28%

of your waking life

That's 9.4 years you'll never get back. Not living. Not creating. Not connecting. Just scrolling.

to put that in context

the moon landings

9 days

total time humans have stood on the moon. combined. ever.

a university degree

3 years

most people will spend four times longer on their phone.

learning an instrument

10,000 hrs

the time needed to reach mastery. most of us spend it scrolling.

a new language

600 hrs

to reach conversational fluency. one year of daily screen time is 1,600+ hrs.

reading 200 books

~500 hrs

the number of books the average person reads in a lifetime.

building a business

years

the time you keep saying you don't have.

ready to do something about it?

mute project makes the hardware. physical tools to reclaim your time. no apps, no subscriptions, no irony.