If you grab your phone the second it gets quiet, ask yourself what you’re running from.

The reach is automatic before it is anything else. A gap opens, an elevator, a line, three seconds between things, and your hand moves without a decision being made. Sometimes that is pure habit. Sometimes the quiet is where a thought you have been outpacing gets a chance to catch up, and the phone is the fastest way to stay ahead of it.

No interrogation required, so just let one quiet minute happen and see what turns up. If it is nothing, you got a minute. If something does arrive, at least you know what has been waiting, and you can pick when to deal with it.