"The Open Loop - Why your brain holds onto unfinished tasks forever" explores the Zeigarnik Effect: the psychological phenomenon where uncompleted tasks take up more mental RAM than completed ones. It explains why you can't sleep when you haven't replied to that one email, but you instantly forget a project the moment it's submitted.Productivity expert Chloe Davis explains how these "open loops" drain our glucose and cognitive capacity, leading to burnout. The book offers a system for "closing the loop" artificially-using external brain dumps and trusted systems to convince the subconscious...