March 2026
- Mar 23, 2026Work SkillsImproving Focus: Insights from Neuroscience ResearchThe assumption was that colleagues and notifications caused the fragmentation, but her observational data showed people switching to email or messaging unprompted, which moves the fix from managing other people to reshaping your own habits. Leroy's attention residue explains the cost: unfinished tasks keep occupying working memory. Only about 2.5 percent of people are genuine supertaskers.
- Mar 17, 2026Work SkillsMastering Deep Work Techniques for Optimal FocusNewport has no social media accounts and almost never works evenings, because he treats sustained concentration as the scarce resource. The research behind the idea is unsettling: moving to open-plan offices cut face-to-face interaction by roughly 70 percent at one studied firm while email rose, and most workplace interruptions turn out to be self-generated, with people underestimating how often they switch.
October 2025
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