--- --- # Why We Should End Our Obsession With Skinny Phones by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 4, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 4, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We should end our obsession with skinny phones.**](http://thenextweb.com/opinion/2016/02/07/5-reasons-its-time-we-stop-sacrificing-battery-life-for-skinny-phones/) By Napier Lopez in the Next Web **2\.** [**Meetings need a shot clock.**](https://hbr.org/2016/03/meetings-need-a-shot-clock) By Bob Frisch and Cary Greene in the Harvard Business Review **3\.** [**Sorry Baby Boomers. To fix Washington, we’ve got to elect Generation X.**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/how-to-fix-washington-elect-generation-x-213566) By David L. Rosen in Politico **4\.** [**This is the single worst public policy mistake America can make, and we keep making it.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/02/01/the-biggest-public-policy-mistake-were-continuing-to-make-year-after-year/) By Jared Bernstein in the Washington Post **5\.** [**You might not be overweight. Here’s why BMI — body mass index — is a bad yardstick for health.**](http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/016429/flawed-measure) By Julie Cohen at the University of Santa Barbara  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Why We Should End Our Obsession With Skinny Phones ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4438659/why-we-should-end-our-obsession-with-skinny-phones/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4438659/why-we-should-end-our-obsession-with-skinny-phones/"},"headline":"Why We Should End Our Obsession With Skinny Phones","datePublished":"2016-08-04T16:00:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:37.564Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4438659/why-we-should-end-our-obsession-with-skinny-phones/","keywords":["Innovation","elections","BMI","productivity","smart phones"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4438659/why-we-should-end-our-obsession-with-skinny-phones/","name":"Why We Should End Our Obsession With Skinny Phones"}}]}] ```