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How constant notifications make everything feel urgent and nothing feel meaningful

Every app wants to send me notifications and I say yes because what if I miss something important but now I'm interrupted every thirty seconds and nothing feels important anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The multiplication of signals drowns out the signal itself.

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