[bobek]

Adam Grant had recently Daniel Immerwahr on attention span and how it really has not shortened despite popular beliefs.

In the age of social media and short-form content, many people insist that our attention spans are getting shorter. But historian Daniel Immerwahr reminds us that people have cried wolf for centuries about technology hijacking our attention. In this episode, Adam and Daniel dive into evidence that what’s changing is not our attention spans, but the objects of our focus. They also discuss moral panics of the past, compare the cognitive benefits of video games and the opera, and debate whether or not Marvel movies are a waste of time.

https://podcastaddict.com/worklife-with-adam-grant/episode/2...

[eddywebs]

I feel reason for short attention span be something todo with living in continuously added multi threaded world (current) vs not so multi threaded (past) requiring us to keep switching attention for example me writing this comment while monitoring a system while listening to music while thinking about the supper.