Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
kojobaffoe.com
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
Intelligence is one among many ways of being in the world: it is an interface to it; it makes the world manifest.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Because attention is scarce, it is valuable. Every media organization — big or small, reputable or untrustworthy — is using every tactic at hand to engage us.
They need our attention to sell ads and subscriptions, to create value for their brands so we will become loyal consumers of their products.
They need our attention to sell ads and subscriptions, to create value for their brands so we will become loyal consumers of their products.
A writer’s greatest responsibility is to his readers, to keep providing them with the best work that he is capable of turning out.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
People who experience flow describe it as “a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems,” and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an “optimal experience.” Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to
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