
Saved by Chad Aaron Hall and
The Shallows
Saved by Chad Aaron Hall and
To make matters worse for depth, there’s increasing evidence that this shift toward the shallow is not a choice that can be easily reversed. Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently reduce your capacity to perform deep work. “What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplat
... See moreWe may find that the culture of abundance being produced by the World Wide Computer is really just a culture of mediocrity—many miles wide but only a fraction of an inch deep.
All this frenetic digital interruption is “pulling our attention away from our thoughts,” and “suppressing your default mode network…. I think we’re almost in this constant stimulus-driven, stimulus-bound environment, moving from one distraction to the next.” If you don’t remove yourself from that, it will “suppress whatever train of thought you ha
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