Hopefully, this is most often just an excuse for someone with the hacker spirit to figure out how to automate something because it's fun. If you're really spending that much time replying to Slack and e-mail that making yourself an arbitrarily fast typist puts a meaningful dent in what would otherwise be work blockages, I think there are organizational problems there that you can't solve by being a faster typist.

I have found that I am spending more and more time thinking about my solution before implementing. Life is definitely more enjoyable and probably about equally as productive. You just have to carve out that time. Go for a walk and take intentional breaks from the keyboard.

It's not healthy to always be running around like a headless chicken. I want well-paced work to become normal.

You can relax more by spending less time doing tedious repetitive work like typing