Attention capture by work and by information overload share one mechanism

Evidence

I was seeing that the means by which we give over our hours and days are the same with which we assault ourselves with information and misinformation, at a frankly inhumane rate. Obviously the solution is not to stop reading the news, or even what other people have to say about that news, but we could use a moment to examine the relationship between attention span and the speed of information exchange. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 94

Categorization

• XREF: This is central to the reader’s defense — Odell explicitly says the answer is not disengagement from news, preempting the withdrawal misreading head-on.
• QUESTION: The claim that work-time capture and info/news overload share the SAME means is suggestive but underspecified — worth pressing on what exactly unifies them.