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Attention is the bottleneck

You do not have a time problem — you have an attention allocation problem. Every ping steals recovery time.

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Interruption audit

Log every interruption for one work session. Count and categorize.

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One 2-hour audit. Tally: self, others, phone, slack.

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Chapter learning outcomes
  • Attention economics
  • Context switching cost
  • Energy cycles

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Side quest

Baseline

Note your peak energy hours for 3 days.