Slack pings, email overload, constant interruptions—we’re trapped in cognitively polluted environments. But what if the real moonshot is reclaiming our focus? Getting back into deep work might be the ultimate moonshot for the future of productivit Clip from episode 119 with Drew Houston (CEO, Dropbox): lessons from 17 years as CEO, battling big tech incumbents, fundraising and valuation reflections, the future of file storage with AI, and more

Civilizationally, we'll look back on this and be like, yeah, remember that we had that weird detour sometime in the 2010s where we basically just like stopped using our brains at work and like put ourselves in these like super cognitively polluted environments? If you wanted to divide an environment that made it impossible to ever get into a flow state, that's kind of what we have. Maybe the real moonshot here or the moonshot that powers all the other moonshots is like helping people get back to being able to use their brains at work or like being able to run their brain in something more than first gear or just like not be distracted and overwhelmed all the time.