Ezra Halevi

I'm Ezra. I built Pause Moment because I kept ignoring my own reminders. Every alarm I set, I'd swipe away in two seconds. Louder ones made me angry. Gentler ones I forgot. The problem wasn't willpower. It was the swipe itself. The phone was designed to let me dismiss things, and I did, even the things I actually needed. Pause Moment locks the screen instead of pinging. It shows my own photo and words I wrote when my head was clear. I can't swipe it away. The lock holds for one to ten minutes. By the time it lifts, the thing I was supposed to do is usually done. What I can speak to as a source: I take medication daily for PTSD. So I know the dismiss-and-forget loop firsthand, and I've talked to a lot of people on antidepressants and ADHD meds who fight the same one. I'm a dad of th...