Sometimes people coerce me into using services, eg development team found a cool service to manage the project issues or designers want to check out the tool to manage the assets.<p>There&#x27;s no way around it. 
I found password manager tools to be invaluable in maintaining the accounts, &quot;fire and forget&quot;.<p>They usually opt you in for the marketing emails, but unsubscribing is just one click away in 99% of the cases.<p>You are spot on about the mobile devices enabling addictive behavior.<p>I used to have an old Nokia phone, with physical buttons during the smartphones craze and wasn&#x27;t able to consume entertainment media while away from my computer. I though I&#x27;d upgrade to be able to interact better with friends through WhatsApp and whatnot and realized how much more time I fill my brain with junk media, because the phone is always there hence everything is at the tip of the finger.<p>Although, I found playing chess on my phone to be very convenient, it&#x27;s been ages since I wanted to try to learn playing chess.<p>Technology is a double-edged sword and it definitely requires to exert more self control. It&#x27;s easy not to be bored, to be somewhere in between of being satisfied and not achieving or progressing much.<p>I love this bit Louis CK did about smartphones, even though a bit jokish but rings true: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5HbYScltf1c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5HbYScltf1c</a>