Dr. Cal Newport

It's just impossible, right?

So of course we had a lot of portions of our day where our brain was not like ramped up in gear for the sort of social processing mode.

But smartphones makes it possible that you can be in that mode all day long.

And so like one of the things I hypothesize is some of the anxiety rises that goes with the age of smartphones is brain exhaustion, right?

So that's another negative effect of the constant.

We have two negative effects now for the constant stimuli and one positive effect for the absence of the constant stimuli.

So I think we're making a case here for not always being on your device.

Time blocker.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I'm not a big believer in to-do lists.

I like to grapple with the actual available time.

Like, okay, I have a meeting here.

I have to like pick my kids up from school here.

Here's the actual hours of the day that are free and where they fall.

All right, what do I want to do with that time?

Well, OK, now that I see that there's a lot of gaps in the middle of the day here, they're short.

Maybe there I'm going to do a lot of small, non-commonly demanding thing.

Oh, this first 90 minutes in the morning is like the main time I have uninterrupted.

OK, so this I'm going to work on writing.