Photo by Walls.io on Pexels The 40-notification morning Pick up your phone first thing and count the badges. If you're anywhere near a typical smartphone setup, you'll hit double digits before you've had coffee — a weather alert, three shopping app promos, a game asking you to come back, a news breaking-alert that isn't actually breaking, and somewhere in there, an actual text from your sister. That's the problem. Not that notifications exist, but that they're all sorted into one pile with equal visual weight. Your phone buzzes the same way for "your package is out for delivery" as it does for "mom is calling." I've written before about how your home screen is a productivity tool most people never configure — notifications are the other half of that same neglected system, and honestly the more damaging half, because they interrupt you instead of just sitting there waiting to be ignored. Fixing this takes maybe twenty minutes. I...
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