Put your attention back together.
The world is built to distract you.
Learn to focus anyway.
Built for focus in a distracted world.
Most of the internet is built to break your focus. It rewards the endless scroll and trains us to move on before we’ve even started.
- 2004 2½ min
- 2012 75 sec
- 2016-21 47 sec
Source: Gloria Mark, Attention Span (2023)
Every switch has a cost.
An interruption lasts seconds. Getting back to what you were doing takes far longer, usually after a detour through two other tasks.
~23 min to get back on task
Source: Gloria Mark, interview in Gallup Business Journal (2006)
Even without a ping, we drift.
Not every distraction is a notification. Left alone, our minds wander for almost half of our waking hours, and we tend to feel less happy when they do.
Source: Killingsworth & Gilbert, Science (2010)
A logic puzzle asks for something different.
One challenge, clear rules, and zero shortcuts. You hold an idea in your mind, test it, learn from a mistake, and persist until the solution snaps into place.
It’s a quiet space to rebuild the focus that the rest of the web strips away.
Choose a puzzle.
Simple rules, no luck involved.
Take as long as you need.
Sudoku
Fill the grid so every row, column and box has the numbers 1 to 9 exactly once.
Play SudokuQueens
Place one queen in each row, column and colored region. No two queens can touch.
Play QueensMore on the way
New puzzles will join over time. Sudoku and Queens come first.