how tech companies encourage behavioral addiction: intermittent positive reinforcement and the drive for social approval. - Cal Newport

minimalists don’t mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good.

One study estimates that by 2019 the average worker was sending and receiving 126 business emails per day, which works out to about one message every four minutes.2 A software company called RescueTime recently measured this behavior directly using time-tracking software and calculated that its users were checking email or instant messenger tools like Slack once every six minutes on average.3 A

The key to meaningful work is in the decision to keep returning to the efforts you find important. Not in getting everything right every time.