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Johann Hari

Journalist & author · Stolen Focus

“Fractured attention is engineered, not a personal failing.”
The idea

Hari argues our collapsing attention isn't a personal failing but a systemic one — an environment engineered to fracture focus, which hits minds that already struggle to hold a thread even harder.

How it shaped Orbit

This reframes the ADHD experience the product is built for. "Out of sight, out of mind" isn't a character flaw to will your way past; it's a predictable result of a hostile environment. So Orbit builds the external scaffolding instead of asking you to try harder.

In the appDesigned for a distracted mind