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Distraction: don't blame your phone

Distraction: don't blame your phone

The call is coming from inside the house

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Leslie Kern
Feb 06, 2023
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IPhone home screen full of apps with red notification alerts.
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Attention is valuable. Where we choose to place it says a lot about our relationships, core values, and priorities. The challenge, according to many thinkers today, is that our control over our attention is being actively eroded by corporations and technologies that profit from distractability.

While the problem isn’…

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