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People are increasingly bored in our digital age
Despite being constantly connected, we’re more bored than ever. Inzlicht and Tam reveal that the endless stream of digital content...
Philip Lorenzo
Jul 18, 20251 min read
The Attention Crisis at Work: How Modern Employment Fragments Our Focus
We're living through an attention crisis that goes deeper than just checking phones too much. Drawing from philosopher Simone Weil's...
Philip Lorenzo
Jul 11, 20251 min read
The Battle for Your Attention
Your attention shapes your reality. From the Latin "attendere" meaning "stretching toward," attention is how we selectively focus on what...
Philip Lorenzo
Jul 4, 20251 min read
Burnout and the Breakdown of Attention
Impaired attention is a major player in mental fatigue and a defining feature of burnout. A recent study found that people with clinical...
Philip Lorenzo
Jun 20, 20251 min read
On Floods and Tsunamis of Information
This 2024 article by cognitive neuroscience professor Torkel Klingberg reflects on his 2007 book "The Overflowing Brain," which explored...
Philip Lorenzo
Jun 13, 20251 min read
The Attention Bottleneck
Despite living in an information-rich world, our attention operates at just 10 bits per second—a staggering limitation revealed by Cal...
Philip Lorenzo
Jun 6, 20251 min read
Reclaiming Your Attention in the Digital Age
Your phone is rewiring your brain. Research shows the average adult can only focus for 47 seconds—we're all developing "Internet Brain."...
Philip Lorenzo
May 30, 20251 min read
The Attention Economy: What We Knew 5 Years Ago vs. Today
Attention is our most precious cognitive resource. It is finite, selective, and constantly under siege in the digital age. The attention...
Philip Lorenzo
May 23, 20251 min read
Human Capacity in the Attention Economy
Modern digital environments are engineered to seize our attention, but our brains aren’t built to handle the constant pull. In Human...
Philip Lorenzo
May 16, 20251 min read
Social Media and Shrinking Attention Spans: Understanding "Brain Rot"
Our dwindling attention spans may be victims of "brain rot" – Oxford's 2024 word of the year that describes how social media potentially...
Philip Lorenzo
May 9, 20251 min read
The Modern Attention Challenge
Research shows attention difficulties extend far beyond those with ADD/ADHD. People with anxiety, depression, OCD, and eating disorders...
Philip Lorenzo
May 2, 20251 min read
The New Obesity: Ultra-Processed Information and Attention Health
Just as ultra-processed foods reshaped our bodies, ultra-processed information is reshaping our minds. Cheap, synthetic content floods...
Philip Lorenzo
Apr 25, 20251 min read
Ultra-Processed Minds
"We live in an age of lexical abundance. More words, more access, more content than at any time in human history... The reading brain,...
Philip Lorenzo
Apr 18, 20251 min read
Why Social Media Might Be Making You Slower
Scrolling through social media demands more attention than we think—and that might be costing us in the gym. A new study shows that...
Philip Lorenzo
Apr 11, 20251 min read
Attention Factory
TikTok isn’t just another social media app—it’s an attention factory. As told in Attention Factory by Matthew Brennan, TikTok thrives by...
Philip Lorenzo
Apr 4, 20251 min read
Rethinking Attention: Beyond a Resource to Experience
In our digital age, attention is often viewed as a commodity to be managed and exploited. However, this perspective misses a deeper...
Philip Lorenzo
Mar 28, 20251 min read
How Attention Works
Attention architects try every trick in the book: they hang up screens with moving images in busy city centers, add flashing banners to...
Philip Lorenzo
Mar 20, 20251 min read
The Power of Attention in a World of Disinformation
In an era where disinformation dominates our digital landscape, our ability to focus is more important than ever. Attention acts as a...
Philip Lorenzo
Mar 14, 20251 min read
Attention as Precision Tuning: A Predictive Processing Perspective
Attention isn't just about focusing—it's about how our brains decide what matters. According to Andy Clark's predictive processing...
Philip Lorenzo
Mar 7, 20251 min read
The Economics of Attention: Why Your Focus Is the New Currency
In The Economics of Attention (2023), George Loewenstein and Zachary Wojtowicz argue that attention is a scarce economic resource, as...
Philip Lorenzo
Feb 28, 20251 min read
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