By working backward from their deep values to their technology choices, digital minimalists transform these innovations from a source of distraction … - Cal Newport

Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable. I like the term “stretch” for describing what deliberate practice feels like,

The relentless overload that’s wearing us down is generated by a belief that ‘good’ work requires increasing busyness — faster responses to email and chats, more meetings, more tasks, more hours.

Decades of work from multiple different subfields within psychology all point toward the conclusion that regularly resting your brain improves the quality of your deep work. When you work, work hard. When you’re done, be done. Your average e-mail response time might suffer some, but you’ll more than make up for this with the sheer volume of truly important work produced during the day by your refreshed ability to dive deeper than your exhausted peers.