The 60-Second Rule That Ended My Browser Tab Nightmare Unleashed My Focus
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The 60-Second Rule That Ended My Browser Tab Nightmare Unleashed My Focus
Do you ever stare at your browser, a sea of tiny favicons stretching across the top, each one a promise you haven't kept? That was my daily reality. For years, my digital life felt like a hoarder's attic – every tab a half-finished thought, a forgotten article, or a task I was 'going to get to'. I used to pride myself on my multitasking. I'd have 50, 60, sometimes 100+ tabs open across multiple windows. Each one represented a potential future me, a more informed, more productive me. But the truth? It was a lie. A beautiful, productivity-killing lie. The Silent Killer: Cognitive Overload by a Thousand Tabs Here’s what I learned the hard way: every single open tab, even if you’re not actively looking at it, demands a tiny sliver of your brain's processing power. It's like having 50 conversations happening simultaneously in the background of your mind. You can't focus on any one of them. This constant, low-grade cognitive load led to: Decision Fatigue: Just cho…
