The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back) - Cal Newport - #1067

Dude, you must be feeling like Cassandra at the moment. So prescient, the distraction, the necessity of deep work, the inherent bombardment of our attention. Do you do you feel like you saw the future earlier than what even at the time maybe felt late with deep work and focusing on quality over quantity and stuff? I mean, I think part of what I noticed was the present was crazy to me. And no one else recognized it.

So it was less even predicting the future. I I I feel like there was a time, God, it's like 10 years ago now, where I was looking around and yeah, saying two things. One, social media doesn't make sense. Why are we all pretending like this is at the the center of democracy and civic life and all business? We all have to be on here all the time.

And two, email doesn't make sense. not what was going to happen in the future. I'm just like looking at the way we're working today with email and then Slack and Teams was coming. Like this completely does not make sense. You're switching your context once every two or three minutes.

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