Don’t miss out on CASETiFY’s biggest sale of the year ending very soon, check out my personal favorites at Promotion Mechanics: $60 Get 15% off $90 get 25% off $120 get 30% off $150 get 35% off Extra 5% off on older phone model cases (iPhone 16 and earlier phone models) Ultra Bounce/Bounce/Ultra Impact Case 20% off #CASETiFY #CASETiFYPartner #BlackFriday #deals ➤ BOOK CLUB / NEWSLETTER ➤ PRODUCTION written by Mina Le and Am Wyckoff edited by Charlee Reiff ➤ SOCIALS Instagram: TikTok: @gremlita Letterboxd: ➤ CONTACT Business email: @ ➤ SOURCES Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman (2021) Email and the Everyday: Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor by Esther Milne (2021) Killing me softly: Electronic communications monitoring and employee and spouse well-being by William J. Becker, Liuba Belkin and Sarah Tuskey (2018) Work’s Intimacy by Melissa Gregg (2021) Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America by Steven M. Gelber (1999) Reading fiction and reading minds: the role of simulation in the default network by Diana I Tamir, Andrew B Bricker, David Dodell-Feder, Jason P Mitchell (2015) , Demystifying the New Dilemma of Brain Rot in the Digital Era: A Review by Ahmed Mohamed, Fahmy Yousef, Alsaeed Alshamy, Ahmed Tlili, Ahmed Hosny, Saleh Metwally (2025) How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (2019) 0:00 - intro 7:34 - the sisyphean inbox 17:10 - productive hobbies 26:12 - the productivity feedback loop 34:08 - conclusion