Posts tagged attention

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7 October 2026 — Why people walk looking at their phones Walking to a lecture hall an hour early, reading email I could have read sitting down, I started wondering why a freed-up attention gets filled that way. ICAP tells me scrolling is the engagement least likely to teach me anything, and says nothing about why it is the easiest to start. My working answer is context: a familiar walk builds an expectation, so a small departure from it is worth noticing, and an app replaces the context faster than one can form. This is a line of thinking that needs a literature review, including work that would contradict it.