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Why this exists
An independent, non-commercial project to read the research on attention, screens, and disconnecting, and say in plain English what it finds.
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Essays on attention, phone use, sleep, mood, and disconnecting. Each piece is grounded in peer-reviewed research and written for people who want to understand the topic without a degree in cognitive neuroscience.
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The evidence on disconnecting
A considered reading of fifteen years of research on phones, attention, sleep, mood, and what actually happens when you use a screen less. Where the evidence is strong, it is said so. Where it is weak, it is said so.
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Your brain on boredom
The neuroscience of doing nothing. How the Default Mode Network works, what it does when you let it, and why a certain amount of boredom is not a failure state but a neurological necessity.
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