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Poor Focus at 45: Three Causes, One Is Fixable
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If you are over 40 and your focus has declined, the first question nobody asks is: *what kind of focus problem is this?* Read more…
Digital Friction Isn’t Enough: You Need Separation
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The standard advice for reducing phone use is friction. Delete the app. Log out. Turn off notifications. Make it harder to access the distraction. Read more…
The Analog First Hour
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You have heard the advice before: do not check your phone in the first hour of waking. Keep the morning analogue. No email, no news, no Slack. Read more…
What Generative AI Does to Your Thinking
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The worry about generative AI is that it makes you dumber. That by outsourcing thinking to a machine, your cognitive capacity declines. Read more…
Cognitive Atrophy Compounds Like Sedentary Behavior
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The sedentary behavior analogy is useful for understanding cognitive decline in the AI era. No single missed workout destroys your fitness. One week of misse… Read more…
The Real Attention Span Problem: Depth, Not Length
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The headline you keep seeing is that human attention spans are shrinking. The data behind it is usually weak – most of the “eight-second attention span” cl… Read more…
