Days are short, years are long — Most days, I don’t feel particularly productive. I don’t usually feel like I got a lot done at the end of a day and I never get all the way through my to-do list.

More productivity isn’t the answer to your problems: I’m astounded by how much “productivity” material is out there, where so many of the same tips and advice are shared over and over again.

Author Nir Eyal claims in his book Indistractable that distractions have less to do with the distractions themselves (e.g. checking your phone constantly, shopping online, Netflix, etc.), and more to do with pain management.