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Short-form video makes it hard to remember what you’re doing and worse at doing it

Rob Beschizza
Dec 31, 2025
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Whatever you intended to do when you opened a new tab, nothing stops you in your tracks quite like short-form video. The format, popularized by Tik Tok, “degrades our capacity to retain intentions,” according to research from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. [via Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham]

The study tested how using different social medi…

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