Tristan: We're all interdependent in this web of communication, right? Which is email. And if any individual were to pull out and say, I'm not going to check my email that often, they're going to be penalized. Silicon Valley product designers can hack our way out of this mess. They just haven't scaled yet.
Every 40 seconds, our attention breaks. It takes an act of extreme self-awareness to even notice. That’s why Gloria Mark, a professor in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvine, started measuring the attention spans of office workers with scientific precision. What she has discovered is not simply an explosion of disruptive communications, but a pandemic of stress that has followed workers from their offices to their homes. She shares the latest findings from the “science of interruptions,” and how we can stop forfeiting our attention to the next notification, and the next one, ad nauseam.