Pardon the Interruptions — with Gloria Mark

Every 40 seconds, our attention breaks. It takes an act of
extreme self-awareness to even notice. That’s why Gloria Mark, a
professor in the Department of Informatics at University of
California, Irvine, started measuring the attention spans of
office workers with scientific precision. What she has discovered
is not simply an explosion of disruptive communications, but a
pandemic of stress that has followed workers from their offices
to their homes. She shares the latest findings from the “science
of interruptions,” and how we can stop forfeiting our attention
to the next notification, and the next one, ad nauseam.