Rooms, radios, hurdles
Jacques Barzun: “Jane Austen could write novels in the family parlor and some people can think in a boiler factory, but it is foolish to take the hardest hurdles first when the power of attention is so rare.”
Noisy for Mac
Noisy is a free app (OS X 10.5 or later) that generates pink noise or white noise, masking background chatter and other distractions.
Re: “distracting little rituals”
What are your preferred forms of work-avoidance?
Richard Wollheim on looking at art
It takes hours to pay attention
David Foster Wallace on attention
From a 2005 Kenyon commencement speech
"Writing in the Age of Distraction"
Cory Doctorow: "When you come to a factual matter that you could google in a matter of seconds, don't."
Earphones and trolleys
Stop, look, listen
Free advice for Bill McKibben
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Managing attention
Do you have a never-ending list? Do you manage your time? Do you manage minutes, tasks, and lists? Do you start each day with a list that ha...
"Is Google making us stupid?"
Comment on Nicholas Carr's Atlantic article
Boredom and attention
Attention as the antidote for boredom
DOTHETEST
Quick test of awareness
WriteRoom
[Click to enlarge and read.] Smultron (by Peter Borg) TextWrangler (Bare Bones Software) WriteRoom (Hog Bay Software) Related posts...
Bookstore music
The marketing of Norah Jones
"A lot out there is conspiring to distract you"
More on continuous partial attention and reading habits : I recently spoke with a junior who was stressed about her decreasing ability to f...
Blockwriter
simple writing software
Jedi Concentrate
Free program to dim all the active window
Multitasking: "not paying attention"
From Jared Sandberg's column "Cubicle Culture": Multitasking, a term cribbed from computers, is an information age creed that, while almost ...