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You Didn't Lose Your Attention Span. The Friction Moved
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A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and someone figured that out back in 1971, before the internet existed to prove it. This week, Chris and Toby dig into why you end so many days exhausted but unable to say what you actually got done.
The culprit isn't your willpower or your phone. It's that reaching another person used to be expensive — you walked to their desk, you got a busy signal, you waited on a report. That friction quietly rationed interruptions. Now connecting is free, and all of it lands on you: forty apps, endless pings, a quarter of the workday lost to context-switching. We get into why the productivity hacks never stick (nobody's out of shape from a lack of diet information), what Toyota's factory floor solved sixty years ago that knowledge work still hasn't, and the one move worth trying tomorrow: stop reacting to every distraction the instant it fires, and be intentionally distracted instead.
No frameworks to memorize. Just a clearer way to see why your attention keeps disappearing and how to take some of it back.
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