Rule 1: No Instagram in the first 30 minutes of your morning
The moment you open Instagram before your brain has formed a single intention of its own, you hand your attention to an algorithm that has been optimising for capture since before you were awake. Chanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a person who lets external demands set the first hour of the day has already surrendered the day's direction. He was talking about ministers and court politics. The principle holds for a phone screen in bed.
