The Problem of Distraction

Distraction isn't a tech problem, or a people problem, it's inextricably intertwined. Mark found that email trumped social media as a source of interruptions. We have these 47 second attention spans, and we maintain them by interrupting ourselves. While mindless digital diversions like playing candy-cress might seem like exactly the kind of time-wasting that we should be striving to avoid, they actually serve a valuable function. The moralising over productivity and screen time is unhelpful when it comes to finding solutions,. but highly profitable as the boom in useless blue-like glasses and distraction-free tech goes to show. Stolen Focus concludes by calling for an urgent