Understand the mechanisms behind attention, distraction and information overload.
We finish work, close the laptop and finally have time for ourselves. Yet after scrolling through our phones, watching TV or doing whatever we feel like, we may still feel mentally tired. Why doesn’t free time always leave us feeling rested? 1.Free Time Can Still Be Full of Stimulation At…
We have never had access to so much information. News arrives before breakfast. Messages follow us through the day. Social media keeps refreshing, work brings emails, meetings and new priorities, and our phones quietly remind us that there is always something waiting. For knowledge workers, this doesn’t stop when work…
Have you ever opened social media for a few minutes and found yourself still scrolling much later? It is easy to think this means we simply need more self-control. But there is another way to look at it. Social media platforms are designed to compete for our attention. Recommendation systems…