[HN Gopher] Your attention span is being robbed! ___________________________________________________________________ Your attention span is being robbed! Author : mjoksimovic Score : 24 points Date : 2022-09-07 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (unstructed.tech) (TXT) w3m dump (unstructed.tech) | kingkongjaffa wrote: | I found https://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/ useful for | thinking about this, and developing an awareness of where my | attention goes. | | I use https://bulletjournal.com/ in a paper notebook. | | I use https://orgmode.org/ on my personal and work computers. | [deleted] | teawrecks wrote: | Is this post intentionally formatted like an email from grandma? | Or that time cube site? | askafriend wrote: | People said the same thing about TV (and before that, | newspapers/radio). | | With any new technology, societies will overdo it when it's new | and then eventually find some happy-medium. You're seeing this | happen now with more awareness around social media overuse or | digital detoxes being more in vogue. People are slowly finding | their happy medium. | | Fear not, it's all a part of the natural course of things. | fishcrackers wrote: | jjtheblunt wrote: | > Fear not, it's all a part of the natural course of things. | | i bet some said that too ! | askafriend wrote: | I think humans are far more adaptable than the doomers will | have you believe. Even if that adaptation takes some time at | a societal level. | | We've seen this with several technologies in the past, | especially communication technologies. (Do you remember the | doomer-ism around phone calls and telephones?) | epolanski wrote: | We know this already, but I wonder what the remedies are. | | My SO can barely watch a movie or tv show before she gets back to | infinite scrolling socials, it's a disaster. 5 minutes is the | most she can do. Going out with me or friends is the same, few | minutes and she's back checking emails and socials. | | I decided to lead by example and delete all socials, even reddit | or linkedin, but it's impossible. | Apocryphon wrote: | Being on Hacker News isn't any better than those platforms. | Well, marginally better, but the overall effects are the same. | Infinity pools of content, plus avenues for engagement in the | comment threads. | epolanski wrote: | There's a night and day difference between this platform and | recommendation engines like IG, FB or TikTok. And there's | even a larger difference in effects. | | The only reason I keep HN is because of the amount of | quality-content related to my tech career. | Apocryphon wrote: | Those platforms are worse but I don't believe HN is any | better in quality, just quantity. It's a web forum linking | to online content, it holds the same pitfalls for addictive | behavior. | Apocryphon wrote: | This article makes a valid point and is worth discussing but damn | if it isn't the epitome of a vacuous content writing blog, | complete with a hypocritical coda of "if you like this, you might | also like my other articles" and links to social media accounts | to further the author's brand. | | Twenty years ago, it would've made for an anonymous, conclusion- | less personal entry on a Xanga or a Blogspot somewhere. Now, it's | another means for (eventual) monetization. | wincy wrote: | It wasn't even proofread. I feel like I only read the whole | thing just because he said I don't have an attention span. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-07 23:00 UTC)