CONSTELLATION: Psyche

Last episode treated attention as a habitat. This one stays with what the habitat often underprices: the minutes after an interruption. Coming back is a task — reconstructing displaced context, not flipping a switch. Drawing on Altmann and Trafton’s work on the timecourse of interruption recovery, and Leroy and Glomb’s ready-to-resume plan for attention residue, the episode walks a labelled composite afternoon and ends with a three-step rebuild practice. This is not therapy or medical advice. Narrated with an AI voice and edited by a human.

Attention is treated here as a habitat (an arrangement of cues, interruptions, and recovery) rather than a character flaw. Using the familiar distinction between goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention as a model, not a diagnosis, the episode walks through a composite evening and ends with a sixty-second habitat audit and one twenty-minute change. This is not therapy or medical advice. Narrated with an AI voice and edited by a human.