Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎 on Nostr: The human brain is powerful when focused, but most of our everyday work suffers from ...
The human brain is powerful when focused, but most of our everyday work suffers from a constant barrage of email.
Email forces our brains to constantly “context shift” which has a heavy cognitive load.
Batching work (and ignoring email for periods of the day) can help.
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