You've Been Reading Notifications Wrong And It's Stealing Your Focus

The buzz you can't ignore is designed to keep you hooked.

Every buzz pulls your eyes to the screen, and by evening you've checked your phone a hundred times without deciding to.

Most notifications aren't urgent, they're just loud, engineered to grab attention that you never agreed to give.

The fix is brutal and freeing: turn off alerts for everything that isn't a real person who actually needs you.

Batch the rest to check on your own schedule, and reclaim hours of scattered focus you didn't know you'd lost.