Curiate Blog
Notes on attention, reading and going deep
Pinned · by Robert Mills, PhD
Why Curiate's Focus Time may be a tonic in the age of distraction
Refocusing app incentives toward sustained attention
Short-form apps reward endless scrolling. Curiate's Focus Time flips the incentive, rewarding time spent deeply engaged with one article or video — and the research on attention and reading suggests why that matters.
Read the essay →The best books about Japanese American internment and incarceration
Ten award-winning memoirs, novels and histories of Executive Order 9066 and the camps
The best books about Japanese American internment, chosen from awards and reviews: Farewell to Manzanar, They Called Us Enemy, When the Emperor Was Divine, No-No Boy, Infamy and more.
Read the list →The best books about people pleasing, and how to stop
Ten books for anyone who says yes when they mean no, chosen from what therapists and psychologists recommend
The best books about people pleasing, chosen from bestseller records, reader data and expert reviews: Set Boundaries, Find Peace, The Disease to Please, The Courage to Be Disliked and more.
Read the list →The best apps to replace doomscrolling in 2026
Ten apps that give your thumb something better to do, and what each one actually rewards
Blockers stop the scroll but leave a gap. These are the best apps to replace doomscrolling in 2026: reading, learning and puzzle apps with an end, plus the blockers worth pairing them with.
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