So tomorrow morning, try this. When you sit down to work, pick one thing. Just one. Put on noise-canceling headphones (even if you play white noise). Hide your phone. And do that one thing until it is done.

Turn off every non-human notification. Email dings? Off. News alerts? Off. Calendar reminders? Keep those. For 90 minutes in the morning, your phone goes into "Do Not Disturb." The world survived without instant access to you for 200,000 years. It can survive 90 minutes.

You answer it. It takes 15 seconds.

That is the quiet rebellion. And it starts now. What is the hardest part of monotasking for you? Let me know in the comments below. I’ll be reading them—one at a time.

You go back to your code.

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So tomorrow morning, try this. When you sit down to work, pick one thing. Just one. Put on noise-canceling headphones (even if you play white noise). Hide your phone. And do that one thing until it is done.

Turn off every non-human notification. Email dings? Off. News alerts? Off. Calendar reminders? Keep those. For 90 minutes in the morning, your phone goes into "Do Not Disturb." The world survived without instant access to you for 200,000 years. It can survive 90 minutes. So tomorrow morning, try this

You answer it. It takes 15 seconds.

That is the quiet rebellion. And it starts now. What is the hardest part of monotasking for you? Let me know in the comments below. I’ll be reading them—one at a time. Put on noise-canceling headphones (even if you play

You go back to your code.