>Each time we dispatch an email in one way or another, we feel a sense of accomplishment, and our brain gets a dollop of reward hormones telling us we accomplis

>Each time we dispatch an email in one way or another, we feel a sense of accomplishment, and our brain gets a dollop of reward hormones telling us we accomplished something. I see many people at work with this type of addiction and I think it is responsible for luring a lot of technical people into the management world. As a manager, your work day can consist entirely of these micro-tasks and micro-accomplishments that satisfy the novelty-seeking portion of the brain. And attending meetings should be included in this category as well since people also get a false sense of accomplishment from attending those, and I think they have more potential to satisfy our novelty bias as well since they have a degree of spontaneity.