when you spend long times focusing your attention upon that whole reading process it tends to stick. Like a drug with long-term effects. Do you want those effects?

This is very difficult with our notification-based lifestyles. Either I allow myself to be interrupted or I come back to missed messages and calls.

> Either I allow myself to be interrupted or I come back to missed messages and calls.

Given those two options, the reasonable one is the latter. Just miss a few messages and calls, control your own time.

Man... If the call is important, they can leave a message. And text messages are designed to be async. Anybody who thinks they own my time better be paying me big $$.

I refuse to be a slave to a device in my pocket.

Yeah, I treat my phone like a landline phone. If I don't answer right away then you gotta leave a message and ill see it when I have a break to check it or not.

Im not sure being available 24/7 365 by everybody for every reason is mentally healthy.