Our team has agreed to 'focus blocks' with no Slack but people keep sending 'urgent' messages anyway and now we're in this weird space where half of us ignore the blocks and half of us feel anxious about missing something. I don't know if we're protecting deep work or just creating more stress about communication.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group discovers that protecting attention requires renegotiating what urgency actually means.
“Where Are You with The attention economy examined?”
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