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Place your phone in a different room, drawer, or timed lockbox during deep work blocks, not merely flipped over on your desk, to eliminate both visual cues and immediate retrieval affordances.
For every app on every device, apply the 30-day action criterion: if no notification in the past month caused an action you're glad you took, disable notifications for that app immediately.
Classify notification sources into three tiers—Tier 1 immediate (5 or fewer total), Tier 2 batched (checked on schedule), Tier 3 eliminated (disabled entirely)—and configure each source according to its tier within 24 hours of classification.
Remove notification badge counters for all apps except Tier 1 immediate-response sources to eliminate visual triggers that create psychological open loops independent of notification content.
When experiencing the urge to switch tasks during focused work, pause for three seconds to name the internal state driving the urge (boredom, uncertainty, anxiety), then consciously return to the task without suppressing the emotion.
Eliminate decision points during deep work startup by pre-deciding tool configuration, document access, notification state, and physical materials before the session begins.
Before opening any social media platform, write down your specific intended information target and set a 5-minute timer; when the timer fires, close the app regardless of whether you found the target.
After producing a ranked priority list, draw a line after the third item and allocate your peak attention hours only to items above that line, treating everything below as receiving leftover capacity or explicit deferral.
Maintain a priority stack of three to five items maximum, working exclusively on the top item until it completes or genuinely blocks, then rotating to the next unblocked item rather than distributing attention across the full list.