Everybody seems to be writing lately about how the online world have shortened our attention span. The amount of information that we process daily is forcing us to switch context rapidly. You have probably experienced plenty of that yourself. I have recently read in an article that one of the new expressions in the Swedish language (I am studying Swedish) is “popcorn brain”. You would say that someone has a popcorn brain if they switch focus way too often. The type of person that watches tv with the phone in their hand, switching their attention between the two and keeping track of various pop up notifications as well. I found that hilarious that Swedish felt the need to describe a person in this way but I actually agree with this. This expression is super useful. Sometimes I have popcorn brain myself. A few years back I really struggled to focus for long periods of time. Focusing even for 30 minutes at a time seemed like a challenge. At the time I worked as a technical …