I love this. I am starting to become obsessed with how to create a remote work culture that values protected time and deep work over the constant Slack-reply-Slack-reply-oh-no-the-day-is-over anxiety-wheel. This story is now my central thesis statement, my aspiration to build the opposite of this, thank you for writing. I sent it to my friend group chat and everyone was like "OH MY GOD THIS FIRST SENTENCE IS ME".