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How Email Batching Reduces Decision Fatigue and Burnout
Lucas and Luna explore how the constant inbox interruption is a hidden driver of decision fatigue and burnout. They discuss research on attention residue, the cognitive cost of switching contexts, and the surprisingly simple fix of email batching. Lucas shares his own experiment: checking email only three times a day for two weeks, with specific time blocks (10am, 1pm, 4pm). They walk through the science of why each email ping steals focus for 23 minutes on average, and how batching cut his daily decision count by over 40. Luna pushes back on the fear of missing urgent messages, and they land…
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