This was originally published on my newsletter. I’ve been feeling more and more distractible and, to be quite honest, I don’t love it. There are many factors at play, but the one I want to explore here is the role of technology and its downstream effects on the rest of my life. To do that, I’ll compare and contrast the two kinds of day that I seem to have. The first kind of day is when I ‘check’ my phone in the first few hours after waking.