#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)
Cal Newport reflects on the past decade of his work, arguing that while awareness of digital distraction has grown, the core problems of shallow work, cognitive overload, and misaligned incentives in knowledge work have only worsened — not despite, but because of, technological advances l
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