Tagged “attention”
Lately I've been using timers daily
Convinced me to start using xfce timer, and it has already been useful!
Seeing more of these GitHub-as-a-blog.
I Block Ads : Hacker News
Cocaine phone and Kale phone
surprised I had not considered this - since 2 laptops (work/non-work) has long seemed like a no-brainer.
Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences
My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span
on fragmented attention span and inability to wait
The second Netflix introduces ads I would drop my subscription
Can relate to this. Avoiding ads most of the time I find TV ads very jarring
How to find good TV shows
tldr: you probably can't
Most TV shows are not good. The key problems are that too much quality scripting is required, and that the incentives are to try to get the show extended for another season. Plus too much of the audience “just wants something to watch.”
Could I name twenty TV shows that I think are worth watching, relative to the best movies you haven’t seen and the best books you haven’t read? Not sure. Attention is that which is scarce. But it shouldn’t be. Just pay better attention and read that book or watch that movie. There is also plenty on YouTube that beats TV shows, and if you are old you may not consume much YouTube content at all.
My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
Me either. Logging out of twitter has helped reduce the effect.
Reading on smartphone affects sigh generation, brain activity, and comprehension
This reply spoke to me. I did it a few years ago and it has helped a lot.
I've silenced my phone 8 or 9 years ago and it's been like that since then. (With unmuting it very occasionally. Like a few times a year, maybe.) The notification frequency must have grown a lot since then.
I have no idea how people can deal with their phone beeping and vibrating constantly. Actually, I get annoyed pretty quickly when e.g. my partner leaves her phone in the room.
Herding Cats and Free Will Inflation [pdf]
I liked Uri Bram's comment on this: "A PDF, but well worth the inconvenience".
We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus [HN]
It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
undisturbed
Going Grayscale
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