Are You Distracted?
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Are You Distracted?
Many people use applications that black out the rest of the computer, such as WriteRoom. Some rely on Internet-blocking applications like Freedom to limit distraction during work sessions. Others disconnect altogether, turning off Wi-Fi or pulling the network cable.
Anne Janzer • The Writer's Process: Getting Your Brain in Gear
“What I need, what I am trying to build, is — I coin this phrase by analogy to a memory palace — an attention cottage . ... When I sit down in a chair with a book in my lap, a notebook at my side, and no screens within reach or sight, I am dwelling in my attention cottage.
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Alan Jacobs • 1, #86 - How to survive in a world of distraction
And at the same time, I think that the group of people who, by luck or by temperament, proved very, very good at using the internet, to some degree, distracts from the many, many, many people for whom the internet is fundamentally a distraction machine, or for whom the internet is creating, because of what we built on it. You know, shorter attentio... See more