How can AI-powered solutions help us improve productivity and refocus our energies on what matters most?
Share to linkedinOur work days are filled with a never-ending barrage of audible pings and flashing badges from our email, Slack, Twitter, social media, browser tabs, and more. Despite our best efforts to focus, constant electronic distractions steer us off course and fragment our concentration. Ironically, many of these intrusions originate from the very tools required to complete essential tasks and run our lives.
It's possible to eliminate those distractions completely, of course. You can shut down messaging clients or go into airplane mode, and hope that nothing critical comes in while you're heads down on a project. But there is friction in that. Often the work requires information or files from the inbox or internet, making this approach feel cumbersome and unnatural.
Attempts to reduce distraction and strengthen focus are nothing new. In the late 1980s, Francesco Cirillo invented a time management system called the Pomodoro Technique, which broke projects into 25 minute intervals, followed by short breaks. Today, as they say, “There’s an app for that!”. Currently topping the AppStore productivity category is an app called Forest, which rewards 25 minutes of focus with a virtual tree that grows from a sprout.
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