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[Nitish | Indie Hacker @nitishnaik2022]

You checked your inbox 14 times before lunch today.

Each switch costs 23 minutes of refocus time (UC Irvine study).

That's 5+ hours lost. Not to hard work — to checking.

The inbox isn't the problem. The habit of checking is.

[Nitish | Indie Hacker @nitishnaik2022]

Unpopular opinion: Zapier made automation worse.

It turned "send me a summary of my emails" into a 47-step workflow that breaks when Gmail updates.

Automation should be one sentence, not a flowchart.

[Nitish | Indie Hacker @nitishnaik2022]

Finally open to use.

https://t.co/PgsKSxqdrs

[Nitish | Indie Hacker @nitishnaik2022]

The biggest lie in productivity: "Just use fewer tools."

I tracked my tool-switching for a week: Gmail → Calendar → Slack → back to Gmail

47 switches per day. 23 minutes of focus lost each time (UC Irvine research).

The problem isn't the tools. It's the switching.

[Nitish | Indie Hacker @nitishnaik2022]

Day 1 of launching CalmPilot.
Real numbers:

113 views. 8 likes. 0 customers.

But someone asked "isn't AI monitoring your life intrusive?"

Best question I've gotten. Here's the honest answer:

[ZeroToUsers @ZeroToUsers]

@nitishnaik2022 Love this.

Feels like the future of “personal ops” — removing all the small decisions every day.

[ZeroToUsers @ZeroToUsers]

What steals your first focused hour most often: email, Slack, or meetings?