When researching the project management websites like Monday, Trello, and ClickUp, they seemed somewhat useless. All of the things they have to offer can be done in a spreadsheet. I work a few jobs, and that’s the way I’ve done it all my life. For one of my jobs, everything is exclusively through email. All…

As we’ve talked about and read so many times before, there are so many things going on that are meant to grab our attention. This is a big topic mentioned in Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention, where it says, “The truth is that you are living in a system that is pouring acid…

A social media detox is a great way to get someone unaddicted to something that is, in hindsight, very addictive. Apps like Instagram, TikTok, X (formerly known as Twitter), and others have algorithms designed specifically to keep you on the app and to keep scrolling. As Johann Hari puts it in “Stolen Focus: Why You…

Time management is a ridiculously important skill. If you do anything in life, you need to manage your time. This is especially true in college. Students are taught how to balance all the activities they are doing on top of their school work and social time. I know for me, it feels like I have…

Writing this was harder than it should have been, and all of it had to do with the issue at hand: attention spans. In recent years, my attention span, as well as others around me, has really gotten worse. With the changing social media landscape, it is hard to avoid distractions. While writing this, I…