The Notification Addiction: How Push Alerts Rewired Your Brain’s Reward System
The Buzz That Wasn’t There Picture this: You’re heads-down debugging a production issue. Coffee’s gone cold, headphones on, deep in flow. Suddenly, your leg tingles. You swear your phone just buzzed. You grab it, mid-thought… nothing. No missed call, no Slack DM, no PagerDuty page. Just silence. That’s phantom vibration syndrome, and if…
