Digital shortcuts and cognitive load
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Digital shortcuts and cognitive load
The key is to find ways to minimize context shifts and overload while still getting done what needs to get done.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
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This stems from the structure of the web — it’s a tangle of links, a jumble of interconnected ideas. It fractalizes our attention, nudging us to leave fragments of our mind trapped in open tabs like a thousand tiny horcruxes — open loops feeding off our attention until they wither away, replaced by our latest distraction.
There’s a bottleneck here:
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