Theres this thing about speed that feels great. Part of why we feel absorbed in this is that its awesome, right? You get to feel that you are connected to the whole world, and you feel that anything that happens on the topic, you can find out about it and learn about it. But we told ourselves we could have a massive expansion in the amount of information we are exposed to, and the speed at which it hits us, with no costs. This is a delusion: It becomes exhausting. More importantly, Sune said, what we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions. Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, theres no time to reach depth.

Stolen Focus by Johann Hari