🔬 Science Aug 9, 2026 · Danny Kenny

How to think clearly when everything feels like an emergency

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You’re driving. Your phone is going off in the cupholder: three Slack pings, a text from your manager, an email stamped “URGENT” that is almost certainly not. Then your kid throws up in the back seat. It’s everywhere. Oh god, it’s everywhere.
Now something — or namely, someone — actually needs you. There is at least one real emergency to deal with, and it involves a bucket and a mop, but your body has been treating the phone like a five-alarm fire for the last ten minutes, if not the last two we

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