Wellbeing
Inside a wellbeing check: asking the questions that matter
Marta KowalczykMost check-ins fail because the question invites a one-word answer. Here's how to ask so someone can actually tell you how they're doing.
Wellbeing
Notification volume, context switching and the fatigue of constant assistance.
Wellbeing
Three documented ways to keep AI out of your evenings
Hiroshi NakamuraNamed studies back a short list of boundary practices — notification windows, after-hours expectations, and where the phone sleeps.
Wellbeing
What one interruption really costs, now that your AI tools ping you too
Hiroshi NakamuraThe published field figure is 25 minutes and 26 seconds, not the 23 minutes the internet repeats — and scheduled AI notifications are a new source of the same problem.
Wellbeing
Audit what you offload to AI: the quarterly hour that keeps you sharp
Hiroshi NakamuraDelegation is the point of these tools — but unexamined offloading quietly atrophies the skills you'll need when the tool is wrong, absent, or inappropriate, and a simple quarterly audit keeps the trade deliberate.
Wellbeing
Screen eye strain: what clinical sources actually recommend
Hiroshi NakamuraDigital eye strain is real, common, and temporary — and the evidence-backed fixes are boring: the 20-20-20 rule, blink-awareness, proper distance and lighting, and an up-to-date prescription.
Wellbeing
Digital detoxes that hold: what actually has documented effects
Hiroshi NakamuraThe research on screen-abstinence interventions is real, modest, and mostly about attention — and the practices that survive the evidence are boundary structures, not dramatic cleanses.