My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span

Hari explains that "Wherever my generation gathered, we would lament our lost capacity for concentration. I still read a lot of books, but with each year that passed, it felt more and more like running up a down escalator." Running up the down escalator describes his waning attention span for long-form content. The more I read Stolen Focus, the more aware I became about how I'd changed. If it's more enraging, it's more engaging. If the majority of your company's revenue comes through advertising, to maximize the revenue, you'll need to get more of the user's viewing time and more clicks on those ads. As I read through these books, it didn't take long before I sensed alarm and decided to put in a plan of action to at least recapture my attention span and return to more long-form reading. The constant information intake from incessantly glancing at our smartphones forces us to constantly multitask while also demanding more context-switching, more decision-making, more figuring out what to do with the information. The more I read about the attention economy, the more I see my smartphone as a cancer, something just waiting to metastasize.