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3 points by khorwitz 11 years ago · 3 comments

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khorwitzOP 11 years ago

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meej2nes 11 years ago

Interesting how we spent years building this huge network called WWW only to start fighting with distractions and creating tools that would help us avoid the temptations in the end. Sounds like we're going in rounds :P

  • khorwitzOP 11 years ago

    Haha, yes. There's this great book called "The Shallows" that talks about how originally people thought the web would increase our depth of learning with deep links to any concept that we didn't grok. But what ended up happening is that people can't stay on one piece for more than a few seconds. People can't focus on anything without having some new distraction pop up and tearing them away. It doesn't have to be that way though. Anybody who does demanding office work should be interested in combating distractions.

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