Phone Notifications

Notifications Are Killing Your Productivity

TL;DR Turn off your phone notifications. You control the device, it shouldn’t control you. Everything about phones is awesome!!!….right? Alright, so I’ll be the first person to admit how AMAZING a tool the smartphone is. If you would have told me 10 years ago that you would have access to the knowledge base of the entire freakin world in your hands, I would have backed away slowly so as not to upset the crazy person. Immediate communication to anyone on the planet, instant connection to news, basically a laptop in your pocket, a MASSIVE feature set! Heck, I’m even typing this blog post on my phone with a Bluetooth mini keyboard. Holy crap is there nothing these things CAN’T do?! You would think all of these features are only a net positive, right?! Well, it depends. When it comes to …

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