Stolen Focus

Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can’t concentrate, and it isn’t your fault. That’s the claim at the center of Johann Hari’s investigation into why sustained attention has collapsed across whole populations. The usual response — blame yourself for weak willpower, download a blocker app, try harder — aims at the wrong target. Attention didn’t erode because millions of people simultaneously lost their discipline. It eroded because the environment we live in was rebuilt in ways that make deep focus nearly impossible, and reclaiming it is less a personal project than a fight over how that environment gets designed.

Johann Hari on SummaryShelf

Stolen Focus