[HN Gopher] Your attention span is being robbed!
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Your attention span is being robbed!
Author : mjoksimovic
Score : 24 points
Date : 2022-09-07 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| 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.
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