Published: Oct. 1, 2019

Adam BradleyEnglish professor Adam Bradley is the author of The Poetry of Pop and co-author of The New York Times bestseller One Day It鈥檒l All Make Sense, the 2012 memoir of rapper and actor Common.

How soon after waking up do you look at your phone? Under three seconds. I鈥檓 checking whether my six-year-old鈥檚 waking me up at 5 or 5:30 a.m.

App you can鈥檛 live without: It鈥檚 a tie between Audible and the podcast apps. My brain eats words.

App you wish you had the inner strength to delete: Any social media app, starting with Facebook and working my way up.

Last person you called: Probably my wife, the law professor Anna Spain Bradley.

Duration of longest call last week:听Just under three minutes, to my wife.

Location of last selfie: Took one with my two girls next to the six-foot inflatable rainbow unicorn lawn-sprinkler I bought them. Father of the Year.

Does anyone else have your passcode? I wouldn鈥檛 put it past my eight-year-old.

Most-used emoji: The thumbs-up emoji (brown-skinned version) is my new version of 鈥淜,鈥 which was my new version of 鈥淥K,鈥 which was my new version of 鈥淥kay,鈥 which was my new version of actually writing people messages with substance.

First thing you鈥檇 do if you lost your phone for a day: Enjoy the silence. 鈥hen call AT&T and get myself back up and running.

Apps听

Last downloaded:

waze

Waze听(to explore the Cayman Islands)

Favorite app:

audible

Audible

Most-used app:听

podcast

Apple Podcasts

Most-used emojie:

emojie

Photo courtesy Adam Bradley听