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Curate notification environments by disabling all…

Curate notification environments by disabling all non-behavioral triggers to prevent attentional competition from degrading intentional trigger effectiveness.

Why This Is a Principle

This principle follows from attention being capacity-limited (Attention as Gate to Conscious Perception), task-switching creating attention residue (Task-switching generates attention residue that persists…), and information creating attention poverty (Information and attention have an inverse relationship). It prescribes aggressive subtraction as a curation strategy. The alert fatigue research demonstrates this is a general principle across human and AI systems.