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1 day agoPeople who can only focus in coffee shops aren't easily distracted at home - they need the low hum of strangers living their lives nearby because silence feels like abandonment and their brain learned to work best when it could hear evidence that the world was still there - Silicon Canals
People work in coffee shops not to avoid distractions but to escape the psychological distress of complete silence and isolation their nervous systems interpret as disconnection.