Principlev1

Establish interrupt protocols that route different priority

Establish interrupt protocols that route different priority levels through different channels, preventing low-priority interruptions from receiving high-priority attention and distributing the cognitive cost of responsiveness.

Why This Is a Principle

This principle derives from signal detection requiring independent sensitivity and specificity dimensions (Signal detection involves independent dimensions of) and task-switching generating attention residue (Task-switching generates attention residue that persists). It prescribes tiered routing based on the foundational constraint that treating all interruptions equally destroys the ability to detect true urgency.

Source Lessons

L-1615

Team attention management

What the team collectively pays attention to determines what it accomplishes. Team attention is a finite resource that can be designed, directed, and protected — or squandered on whatever is loudest, most urgent, or most emotionally salient.

Connections

Derived From (2)

AxiomSignal detection involves independent dimensions of AxiomTask-switching generates attention residue that persists

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