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Protect your intention span from the distractions of social media

January 12, 2012

Tonight I coined the term “intention span” to refer to the amount of time that passes between intending to work on something and actually starting work. Social media may be the leading contributor to the growth of your intention span, because it throws so many obstacles in the way of you focusing on whatever it [...]

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The 5 questions to ask about online distraction

December 13, 2010

Whether you’re worried about the Internet’s impact on your attention span, or tired of hearing about how life online is driving us to distraction, these 5 questions will help you think more deeply about online distraction.

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If we didn’t have computers…

November 19, 2010

LOVE Social Media but If we didn’t have computers-wouldn’t need #SocialMediab/c we wouldn’t have stopped being social in the 1st place. When I first shared this interesting tweet from online pal Brenda Johima, it was with some reservations. After mulling it over for a few weeks, I want to explain them. Massive counter-factuals always make me a [...]

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Strategies for managing online distraction from Steven Pinker

June 11, 2010

Psychologist Steven Pinker has a terrific op-ed in the New York Times this morning, responding to the recent flurry of press about how the Internet is destroying the quality of our attention and thinking. Here’s my favorite part of his article: Yes, the constant arrival of information packets can be distracting or addictive, especially to [...]

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5 solutions to hyperthinking and hypertasking

May 31, 2010

While working my way through the consultation paper on Canada’s Digital Advantage, I found myself: investigating the best way to copy and paste text from a PDF to Evernote, leading to an open browser window with a series of tabs about various options for Mac/Evernote integration considering the best way to annotate the PDF on [...]

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My ten online vices

August 23, 2009

There are online activities I never get around to — like organizing my photo library — and then there are the activities that are my eternal time sucks. Here are some of the online activities that have stolen years of my life.

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