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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. And I'm Augusto Pinaud.

And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 114. And we're recording this on May 15 2023, ah work each week of Gousto. And I cover the productivity news headlines of the week. So you know what's going on in the current research tools, services, products and more in the world of personal productivity. With that, let's get into our headlines. Augusto, what is our first headline this week?

Augusto Pinaud 0:38So it happens when you forgot to put the Do Not Disturb thing anyways, our first article is boosting your attention span. And how can you train your brain to manage distractions. And so very interesting articles, you know how to manage your demons, how to manage handle your environment, you know, and

as a person very prone to distraction, I have been working at home for the last 10 years, I have two kids,

I have a wife that now works at home. So interruptions is something that happens and boosting that attention span is critical for me, because otherwise nothing gets done. And from getting people coming into the office and

teach them and train them into before you come and be loud and talk do you need to signal can I talk to you? And as the show was starting? Somebody was walking into my office on I needed to signal you need to text?