Hyperfocus

3: Context is King

Intentional AI, 1 July 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 17 min 54 sec in.

Chris Bailey, co-hosting and drawing an analogy between human attention and AI context windows, mentions that he writes about attention residue in his book Hyperfocus. He explains that switching focus between tasks leaves cognitive remnants that weigh down performance on the new task—and that AI threads suffer the same degradation when unrelated work is mixed into one context.

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