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They seemed to be unable to pull themselves away from their devices, flicking through and through and through, thanks in part to the code he had designed.

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

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Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

I argue, in contrast to the administrators and experts described above, that attending to multisensory engagement and multimodality, and to the whole sensorium, is a form of care.

Michele Ilana Friedner • Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India

On the one hand, a relatively small group of people will retain, and intentionally develop, the capacity for concentration and long-form reasoning. On the other, a larger general population will be effectively post-literate — with all the consequences this implies for cognitive clarity.

Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for

Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

A university museum worthy of its name must become at least as much a laboratory as, say, a university library. An archive must become a place of teaching and hands‐on learning. The classroom must become a place of hands‐on engagement with the material remains of the past where the tasks of processing, annotating, and sequencing are integral to... See more

Todd Presner • The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0

In short, the architecture of digital platforms has made us obsessive documenters and consumers of the present, yet largely indifferent to the archives we create.

Adam Grant • Check Your Pulse #55

This is where most people get stuck. They either dive straight into the first piece of content they see, read it voraciously, but quickly forget all the details, or they open dozens of tabs in their web browser and feel a pang of guilt at all those interesting resources they haven’t been able to get to.