i'd love to have a distraction-proof workstation that would force me into my IDE or whatever design doc i'm working on and block out everything else.

but it's not possible because the job requires all these gateway-drugs-to-distraction to be on the forefront of your workspace: * keep slack open in case you're needed in that support thread * keep a browser open so you can google the api docs for something (that's how i ended up here right now) * keep spotify playing in the background so you can drown out the noise of the open office/work-from-home-noise