Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction. - Cal Newport

she was witness to a “grand unified theory” of the mind: Like fingers pointing to the moon, other diverse disciplines from anthropology to education, behavioral economics to family counseling, similarly suggest that the skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.

Compulsive use, in this context, is not the result of a character flaw, but instead the realization of a massively profitable business plan.

First, distraction remains a destroyer of depth.