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I cannot protect my attention.
What phones, feeds and notifications actually do to focus, and which popular claims the evidence does not support.
Explore this topicI am worried about memory, studying or AI.
What changes when search, notes, study tools and AI carry part of the thinking for us.
Explore this topicI want to understand why apps are hard to leave.
How feeds, defaults, autoplay, ranking and stopping cues influence what we do next.
Explore this topicHow we handle evidence
Every load-bearing claim is traced to a named source. Where a finding failed to replicate, we say so. Where the research does not settle a question, we say that instead of guessing.
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