Reclaiming Focus in the Attention Economy

High on Healthy host Richard Zwicky speaks with podcast host and mental health advocate Emily LoMenzo Washcovick about navigating attention, technology, and neurodiversity.

Drawing from her personal experience with a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis and her background working at tech companies like Yelp, LoMenzo Washcovick discusses how modern platforms are intentionally engineered to exploit human attention.

Rather than viewing distraction as a personal failure of discipline, she emphasizes the need to actively manage technology by customizing settings, establishing structured routines, and relying on external accountability to mitigate time blindness.

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