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• productivity created: ‘2026-05-04 14:40’ last_modified: ‘2026-05-04 14:40:00’ status: evergreen confidence: fact

Notifications hijack top-down attention

Non-essential alerts force the brain to abandon deep, deliberate focus to process a trivial, bottom-up interruption. Disabling them is mandatory because Context switching drains executive function.¹

Footnotes

1. Newport, C. (2019). Digital Minimalism. ↩