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Attention

Where focus goes, and what keeps pulling it away.

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Against the Badge

A red number in a corner is a small lie about urgency. Here is what I use instead.

2 min

I once counted fourteen red badges on my phone before breakfast, and not one of them was urgent.

Slow Inbox

I check email twice a day and answer on Thursdays. The world has not ended yet.

2 min

For a year I have answered almost all of my email on Thursdays.

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