The goal of productive meditation is to take a period in which you’re occupied physically but not mentally — walking, jogging, driving, showering — a… - Cal Newport

Constant communication is not something that gets in the way of real work; it has instead become totally intertwined in how this work actually gets done — preventing easy efforts to reduce distractions through better habits or short-lived management stunts like email-free Fridays. Real improvement, it became clear, would require fundamental change to how we organize our professional efforts. It also became clear that these changes can’t come too soon: whereas email overload emerged as a fashionable annoyance in the early 2000s, it has recently advanced into a much more serious problem, reaching a saturation point for many in which their actual productive output gets squeezed into the early morning, or evenings and weekends, while their workdays devolve into Sisyphean battles against their inboxes — a uniquely misery-inducing approach to getting things done.

running is cheaper than therapy.

constantly sending and receiving e-mail messages like human network routers, with frequent breaks for quick hits of distraction.