Watch Quartz’s workshop on making yourself “indistractable”

Pre-pandemic, many of us looked at days spent working remotely as a respite from the distractions of the office, where the colleagues, the coffee bar, and the ambient noise all seemed to be conspiring against the very concept of deep work. But this year we’ve seen, en masse, that working from home comes with plenty of its own diversions and interruptions: kids to feed, dogs to walk, grocery deliveries to unpack, the Siren call of a spice rack we’re reorganizing for the seventh time since March.