Background Sounds bug zapped?
The release notes for macOS Sequoia 15.1 make no mention of it, but according to a Reddit user, the update fixes the Background Sounds bug. It sure sounds like it.
Noisy macOS, noisy iOS
Did you know that you can get distraction-covering noise from macOS (Ventura and above) and iOS (15 and above)?
Noisy colors
The Washington Post listens to different colors of noise.
“But first”
“But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.” “But first, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic.”
Bill McKibben in Alaska
Such condescension, such privilege.
“You must go offline to view this page”
You really do. Go to it and turn off your network connection.
Recently updated
Sherry Turkle’s essay, out from behind the paywall.
Teaching and texting
How is it possible to teach a class of twenty students (a seminar, no less) and not realize that many of those students are texting?
Sherry Turkle on our phones and our selves
“In conversation, things go best if you pay close attention and learn how to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. This is easier to do without your phone in hand.”
Spartz / Bentham
Clickbait and push-pin.
Fighting distraction
Diana Senechal: “To fight distraction is to defend something that matters, something that requires devotion of the mind. This is part of the meaning of study: to honor things through thought and longing.”
“A little out of date”
Diana Senechal on the danger of trying to stay up to date.
Re: “distracting little rituals”
What are your preferred forms of work-avoidance?
The Pale King, dullness
“This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do.”
All Rabbits Must Die
“It’s fast and fun and Angry Birds-like and must not get in the way of work.”
Marcus Aurelius on distraction
Stop your wandering!
Two useful bookmarklets
quietube and Readability, removing online clutter
Free advice for Bill McKibben
Disable automatic notification!
SimplyNoise
A free online white-noise generator
The car as oikos
Living in your car
WriteRoom
[Click to enlarge and read.] Smultron (by Peter Borg) TextWrangler (Bare Bones Software) WriteRoom (Hog Bay Software) Related posts...
More evidence that multitasking doesn't work
The New York Times brings us more evidence that multitasking doesn't work well: "Multitasking is going to slow you down, increasing the cha...