Notifications
Your ability to filter incoming inputs — choosing what deserves your attention and what can wait.
Jake Shane and the Math of Being Disliked
Notifications are the external signals demanding attention. Jake Shane had been absorbing every incoming alert — Reddit, Twitter, comment sections — and letting them inform how he felt about himself. His shift was learning to filter which notifications actually deserved his attention. He stopped checking Reddit. He stopped checking Twitter. He moved toward a system where only the people who actually knew him got to send him meaningful feedback.