The article opens with a short list of micro-stress examples: >The WiFi cuts out just as you’re about to make an urgent online purchase, ... No sooner than I

The article opens with a short list of micro-stress examples: >The WiFi cuts out just as you’re about to make an urgent online purchase, ... No sooner than I got past that sentence, a paywall popped up. The irony. I was eventually able to get around the paywall, but it raises a point: a wide variety of micro-stressors come from this environment wherein we're constantly being advertised to, asked to buy something, or being outright productized ourselves via our data. It's inconvenient and exhausting and creates a universe of tiny tasks with which to constantly contend; from blocking spam calls and emails and online ads to still being exposed to time-stealing messages no matter what you do. Sure, you can deploy an array of tools to bypass some of this, but even that's just more to manage.