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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…
Does Generative AI Make Your Thinking Invisible to You?
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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…
Why Outsourcing Judgment to AI May Cost You Practice
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Sedentary behavior is a useful comparison for what could happen to our thinking skills when we hand judgment calls to AI. This post is an analogy about practice and skill, not a claim about clinical cognitive decline. 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…
Self-Reported Cognitive Disability Rose 40% in a Decade: What It Means (and Doesn’t)
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In a large US survey, the share of adults reporting serious trouble concentrating, remembering or making decisions rose from 5.3% to 7.4% between 2013 and 2023. Here is what that number is, and what it is not. Read more…
