My business partner and I are constantly distracted during our weekly planning meetings because we both keep checking messages and we've tried putting phones away but there's always some fire that 'needs' immediate attention. We're running a company but we can't focus on each other for an hour.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people trying to build something together cannot create the sustained attention their partnership requires because digital urgency has colonized their shared time.
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