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by dandotway 1688 days ago
You can go even farther than no smartphone and eliminate email, as Donald Knuth did on January 1, 1990, after using email since ~1975-1989. His reasons for wanting long hours of uninterrupted concentration may well align with yours:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html