The cure became the disease.

Slack was supposed to save us from email.

Instead, it broke our focus.

Email had boundaries—you checked it, then left.

Slack has none—it pings every 6 minutes.

That's 80+ interruptions a day.

It takes 23 minutes to refocus after each one.

Do the math: deep work is impossible.

We didn't kill distraction.

We democratized it.

Now everyone can interrupt everyone, instantly.

The result? Less focus. Shallower work.

"Inbox zero" turned into attention zero.

The real problem wasn't email.

It was us.

(And interruption is now a $27B business.)