This chapter explores the negative impact of excessive phone use and digital distractions on productivity and mental focus, featuring expert insights. The hosts share findings from a team experiment on interruptions and discuss the neuroscience of task switching, emphasizing the need for sequential task completion.
Most of us have a love-hate relationship with our smartphones and digital media. The technology is here to stay, so how can we keep social media and apps like Slack from killing our productivity? Marie Kondo may have helped us declutter our homes, but on today’s podcast, Cal Newport, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and author of the book Digital Minimalism, shows you how to digitally declutter. Discover how to harness your tech and keep it from sabotaging your brain’s optimal performance.