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Why single-tasking feels impossible in the attention economy

I cannot watch a movie without also scrolling through my phone and I have not finished a film in months.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The capacity for sustained attention has been systematically dismantled by design.

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“Where Are You with Shallow work and the attention economy?”

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