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Interruptions at work

Letter #74 • August 22nd, 2023

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Do you ever get frustrated by the amount of interruptions happening in your work day? If so, you’re not alone. Whether we work from home or an office, whether they’re notifications or a colleague with an urgent request, interruptions can be damaging to the point where they eat up most of our preciously dedicated focus time.

Today, we’ll look into the hook model and how it leads us to create self-interruptions, how to manage interruptions at work, how to preserve digital memories when our accounts shut down, and more.

P.S.: I’m writing a new article on how to choose a mental health app among the many available out there. Is there anything special you want me to cover?

- Clo

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🌻 Bloom from the blog

​The Hook Model: when our Hormones work against us
​You’re probably subjected to it whether you know it or not. The book that introduced the Hook model has sold over 250K copies in over 20 languages. This framework aims to maximise engagement on a product, which is techspeak for making you spend as much time as possible on it, making you visit as many pages as possible, maximising the number of daily active users, etc.
We are prone to this model because it leverages the specific way our brain has been moulded to ensure our survival. For all that, we can still learn to protect ourselves against it.
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🌳 Rooted reads

​Managing interruptions at work: What we learned surveying hundreds of RescueTime users about their worst distractions
​RescueTime is one of the most famous focus tools out there, helping you better manage the time you spend on your devices. This article covers a survey they ran 5 years ago, and I still find it incredibly telling and relevant. It looks into the types and frequency of interruptions for both office workers and remote workers.
The wildest figure: when asked how they felt at the end of their work day, 74% of the people surveyed said “The days seem to fly by and I wonder ‘Did I accomplish anything today?’”.

If you struggle managing distractions and interruptions at work, if you're tired of not being in control of your time, book a call with me!

​How to preserve your digital memories
​This short article from the MIT Technology Review invites us to reflect on our digital records, and shares tips to preserve them in case our accounts ever get removed. Since several tech companies have announced they would be deleting inactive accounts (after 2 years of inactivity for Google, and only 30 days for Twitter), this article comes in handy.

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