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For the past few days, I have moved into a default full-screen mode, in which I hid both my dock and my menu bar. (Hiding the menu bar is enabled by going to System Preferences -> General and checking Automatically hide and show the menu bar. This I did without explicitly launching stuff in "full-screen mode", which most Mac apps have the capability for. Not sure why, but I think the little tweak of having the menu bar hidden (though still open) somehow has a large effect. My desktop ends up looking like the following image (by default):

Additionally, I have started to see the importance of having a single browser tab open, or a single document open, or a single (and logically coherent) set of Python modules open to focus on a single task.

By removing these distracting visual elements out of the way, I can deeply focus on the task at hand instead. No longer will there be a little lingering icon that I'm tempted to click. There's no longer the element of distraction that comes from other "stuff" that's running on my computer.