Excellent framing of latency as a feature not a bug. The part about responding from anxiety versus intention really lands, most of us have trained ourselves to treat every ping like it's urgent when it almost never is. The single-tasking shift sounds simple but it's probaly the hardest one, we're so conditioned to input overload. What's interesting is how muchof this mirrors system design, the best architectures have deliberate buffers and delays built in.
Thanks for this! The system design parallel is exactly what I was reaching for. You're right that the best architectures build in those buffers deliberately. We've somehow convinced ourselves that human attention should work like a real-time system when it's clearly not designed for that.
The single-tasking piece is still the hardest one for me. I had to turn off Apple Watch notifications during work hours because even the haptic buzz before I'd seen what it was would send a full panic spike through my body. That's not normal. But we've normalized it.
Years of conditioning. Small wins feel like reclaiming something.
Excellent framing of latency as a feature not a bug. The part about responding from anxiety versus intention really lands, most of us have trained ourselves to treat every ping like it's urgent when it almost never is. The single-tasking shift sounds simple but it's probaly the hardest one, we're so conditioned to input overload. What's interesting is how muchof this mirrors system design, the best architectures have deliberate buffers and delays built in.
Thanks for this! The system design parallel is exactly what I was reaching for. You're right that the best architectures build in those buffers deliberately. We've somehow convinced ourselves that human attention should work like a real-time system when it's clearly not designed for that.
The single-tasking piece is still the hardest one for me. I had to turn off Apple Watch notifications during work hours because even the haptic buzz before I'd seen what it was would send a full panic spike through my body. That's not normal. But we've normalized it.
Years of conditioning. Small wins feel like reclaiming something.
Appreciate you reading.