Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications

Key points

• 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.
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