I write for a living, so I spend 6–8 hours every day staring at my screen while typing away. Oftentimes, this number gets stretched primarily due to endless distractions thrown at me by the internet.

We are bombarded by distractions every moment of every day. Some of them are of our own making; others are basically unavoidable. As I sat writing this story my Fitbit reminded me to get up and move, ...