1, #86 - How to survive in a world of distraction
use to assuage your urge toward distraction, and in the case of the most addictive forms of technology, that’s surely a sensible idea. But they don’t address the urge itself. Even if you quit Facebook, or ban yourself from social media during the workday, or exile yourself to a cabin in the mountains, you’ll probably still find it unpleasantly cons
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
To care only for things temporal is to lose the things eternal; but to attend rightly to things eternal is the royal road to constructive thought and action in the temporal realm. The great artists and thinkers cultivate a systolic/diastolic rhythm, tension and release, an increase and then decrease of pressure. In the latter phase they withdraw, b... See more
Alan Jacobs • The Attention Cottage
“A Call to Minimize Distraction & Respect Users’ Attention,”