• MENTAL FATIGUE AND COGNITIVE STRAIN NOW PREDICT BURNOUT more strongly than workload volume, as AI-augmented tasks multiply interruptions. Constant digital interruption is among the biggest drivers of workplace stress, as density of activity and constant need to respond keeps people in a state of fragmented attention and ‘high sympathetic activation.’ Knowledge workers spend on average 47 seconds on a single screen before switching, but around 25 minutes to fully re-engage with a task after interruption. “Most stress comes from the physiological cost of constantly switching and re-orienting hundreds of times a day, keeping the nervous system in a prolonged state of elevated arousal while the mind never reaches the depth where meaningful cognitive work occurs. Moreover, the habit-forming nature of constant notifications causes a drop in IQ as the mind learns to fragment.” Latest Deloitte research found “the most expensive cognitive workforce in history is now producing less, feeling worse, and increasingly unable to say why.” [SMARTBRIEF]
• DAILY EMAILS FOR MANAGERS & KNOWLEDGE WORKERS can exceed 150, and double that for Owners & Execs. Since email communication style can have negative consequences, best practices involve: (1) Clear Subject line so recipient understands content and can prioritize accordingly; (2) Avoiding ‘good morning or afternoon’ since immediate opening is unlikely, even if in same time zone; (3) Responding promptly, re-reading carefully (even out loud) and being conscious of tone, to ensure accuracy and best avoid misunderstanding; (4) Respectful signature with options Best/ Best Wishes/ Kind Regards versus Sincerely; (5) Never using email to break bad news, comment on another person’s character or abilities, or convey private thoughts or info – since you can never be certain it will not end up in someone else’s mailbox. [WIKIJOB]
• LAST WEEKS’ CALIFORNIA PRIMARY ELECTIONS pretty much confirmed that the Liberal marching order ‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ will continue to prevail in both local governments and the supermajority state legislature. “The guy likely to win Pelosi’s seat in Congress has spent his career protecting sex offenders who target minors, while Los Angeles chaos will continue with impacts like Skid Row and McArthur Park remaining zombie apocalypse territories, a flood of corruption cases arising out of homeless services, an endless child prostitution scandal that recruits from the county foster care system, a ghastly crisis of wildfires, and a struggling police agency which delegates SWAT/ bomb disposal/ homicide investigations to the county Sheriff – whose offices are in unmistakable freefall, often including ‘self-dispatch’ where deputies decide for themselves which calls to handle.” https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/03/the-california-primaries-are-a-giant-disaster/
• THE BENEFITS OF ACUPUNCTURE to alleviate ailments ranging from headaches/ chronic pain/ osteoarthritis/ asthma/ nausea/ migraines & tension headaches, to even anxiety & cancer-related fatigues can be quite beneficial, according to multiple global studies of systemic reviews and meta-analyses. While positive effects “might be due to the brain’s astonishing power to reduce pain when it believes a genuine intervention is conducted, the balance of evidence is that acupuncture is a reasonable intervention, particularly because it has fewer side-effects than most drugs.” [ECONOMIST]
• THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK: THE EFFECT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON EMPLOYEE JOBS has spawned the newest acronym FOBO – Fear Of Becoming Obsolete. While this might incentivize greater employee effort, latest survey of 1,100 British companies with over 16,000 workers found that AI fears are evidencing impaired performance. Bosses might mitigate job insecurity by identifying the skills still necessary to do less automatable functions, and helping at-risk workers to acquire those skills, but it’s a bumpy road ahead.
• “WOKE CULTURE CONTINUES TO RUN AMOK.” Liberal New York state legislators last week passed gender-neutral legislation which erases the terms Mother and Father from state child custody and parental laws. New terms are ‘gestating’ & non-gestating parent’, along with ‘alleged parent’ for deadbeat dads. “With an intact nuclear family being the only thing standing between the Left and a socialist state, these changes are designed to make it easier for the state to lay claim to children whose parents don’t adequately affirm their child’s ‘transgender’ status.” [TOWNHALL]
• How our media so effectively handles Breaking News: https://www.facebook.com/TheOnion/videos/783493137589716/
• A quite interesting potential remedy for Alzheimer: https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-psilocybin-dose-has-incredible-effect-on-elderly-dementia-patient