Your phone buzzes. An email arrives. A Slack notification pops up. A news alert demands your attention. Within the span of thirty seconds, your brain has been hijacked four times, yanked away from whatever task demanded your focus. Welcome to the modern attention economy, where your concentration has become the most valuable—and most exploited—currency of our time.
We live in what researcher Matthew Crawford calls "the crisis of attention," where our ability to sustain deep, focused