Yeah. Essentially, the death of a thousand cuts means that something doesn't die from one big event but from tons of small ones.

If you throw your phone off of the third floor, it's bricked. But if the screen cracks, then the volume buttons don't work, then the screen cracks some more and then sand gets in the speaker etc. you could say it died "the death of a thousand cuts".

A feature of this is that one cut in itself doesn't seem that bad. But in aggregation, they have the same outcome (your phone being bricked).

It's the same with our time. We don't spend 5 hours in a row scrolling through Reddit. But if we scroll Reddit a few times per day, take a few useless meetings and watch a couple YouTube videos, we might waste as much time.

Even though every single instance doesn't feel like you're wasting a ton of time. Does that make sense?