If you sleep eight hours a night and you’re picking up your phone fifty times a day (which would be relatively few), you’re being interrupted more than three times an hour while you’re awake. If you’re receiving, say, seventy-five notifications a day (again, that’s probably low), that’s almost five interruptions per hour. In other words, of course you feel frazzled, distracted, burned out, exhausted, and like you have no time for the things you claim to care about: your time is being shredded into what Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed, calls “time confetti.”
