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Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.

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Kevin Drum
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 19
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