take back control of your attention
“So much can be accomplished in one focused hour, especially when that hour is part of a routine, a sacred rhythm that becomes part of your daily life.”
— Dani Shapiro
— Dani Shapiro
David Brooks • Your Mental Diet
knowledge workers operate as a state of “divided attention,” in which the mind rarely gets closure before switching tasks, creating a muddle of competing activations and inhibitions that all add up to reduce our performance.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
If I believe my inner world is an “ecology” and social media’s algorithms are “incursions” and “extractive”—then I have to think hard about my own part in sustaining the fragile space of my attention, a place I’ve been cultivating with great care all these years.
Lia Purpura • The Ecology of Attention
Attention isn’t free. It’s the most valuable thing you spend.
Shane • Obsess Over the Basics
No matter how much time I spend catching up on all the interesting links in my inbox, the Internet generates content way faster than I am able to consume it.
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #43
We’ve been given no shortage of digital tools that should, in theory, help us work better, with more focus and efficiency, and connect us more easily with our colleagues. Instead, email, instant messaging, remote-meeting apps, work-flow and project-management software and so on can feel like so many buckets with holes in the bottom, maddeningly in
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