Monday, March 23, 2026

MONDAY — THE HUMAN CONDITION

“In our modern environment, with laptops open in front of us and a smartphone nearby, rhythmically occurring windows for beneficial attentional shifts might also work against us.”

— Ian Fiebelkorn

Your inability to ignore that Slack notification isn’t a character flaw, it’s firmware. New research reveals your brain cycles through “windows of distraction” seven to ten times per second, a rhythm that once kept our ancestors alive near predators but now runs in an environment engineered to exploit every gap your biology leaves open. To learn more, Check out Overactive Brain Rhythms May Be to Blame for Distractibility.

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Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad