Short-Form Video Algorithms Degrading Deep Work Capacity
MBA students are surveying tech professionals about how TikTok and Reels affect their ability to do deep, focused work. This is a survey recruitment post rather than a market problem statement. The underlying attention fragmentation concern is real but no actionable problem is defined here.
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