Ben Kurtzer

Ben Kurtzer and his wife, Melissa, live in Dallas, Texas. They have five children. Ben tries to be as social as possible without using social media.

Op-Eds / From the Paper

Smartphone...Dumb Me?

By Ben Kurtzer

I recently switched from a smartphone to a flip phone. I was spending too much time looking at the phone blurring the boundaries between work and personal time, tuning out my family. I became enslaved to my phone. The smarter the phone, the dumber I got.