In the golden age of newspapers, newsrooms were loud, smoke-filled, and chaotic. But every desk was a fortress. You had your typewriter, your files, and your “Do Not Disturb” glare. Today, we’ve traded our fortresses for “collaborative spaces”—which is really just a fancy way of saying “a place where you can be interrupted by everyone at all times.” We’ve forgotten that depth requires a boundary. 1. The “Visual Noise” Tax Your brain is a processor. Every moving object in your peripheral vision—the Slack notification popping up, the colleague walking past with a coffee, the pile of unfolded laundry on the chair—is a line of code running in the background. It’s…