From tax to slack: this World Mental Health Day, reclaim cognitive space in the era of machine speed
Source: Fortune ·

The Project Healthy Minds Workforce Lab, a first of its kind coalition of employers and Harvard Business School, is tackling what works in mental health.
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We challenge you to read this entire article from the top—no AI summaries, no skim-reading headlines. We are navigating a silent, profound redefinition of what it means to work, lead, and live. In this hyper-accelerated era, we are flooded with endless streams of content, notifications, and automated drafts. We are constantly informed, but are we still thinking? By trying to match machine speed, we are pushing the human operating system to its absolute limit — a tension I explored while recently moderating a panel with three researchers on the subject. We face a converging storm: overwhelming data volume, always-on intake, the cognitive tax of context-switching, and “AI sycophancy”—where tools are engineered to agree with us rather than push us. To survive this, we crave cognitive counterweights: deliberate synthesis, ruthless prioritization, and active recovery. Staying pace in this environment requires far more than a “moment” for mental health. The scale of this digital deluge is…
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