"Just as noise is meaningless without quiet," Fabrica CEO Dan Hill once observed, "connectivity becomes meaningless when pervasive, when it is without a few 'sanctuary spaces' as contrast."

For many, that contrast is most available in the early hours: management thinker Kevin Meyer does yoga after he gets up, Kayak cofounder Paul English makes sure to meditate, novelist Somerset Maugham thought on the first two sentences he would write while soaking in the bath tub.

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