>>> If you’re a consumer of information (and we all are), turn off the live notifications, unless you need the information for your work. <<< This looks like a

>>> If you’re a consumer of information (and we all are), turn off the live notifications, unless you need the information for your work. <<< This looks like a common knowledge to fight distraction, but anyway: I currently experiment with email notification, and I start to reconsider using it again. The point is, that the small blurb doesn't actually distract me that much, and I immediately see that nothing important is coming, and as a result, I doesn't have an urge to check if some important email didn't come. And if something important came, I just know that immediately.