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Slack Considered Harmful

Gio Lodi
February 08, 2018

Slack Considered Harmful

Lighting talk from Melbourne CocoaHeads 111, on focus, productivity, and the danger of living in a distracted world.

https://www.melbournecocoaheads.com/updates/speakers-for-cocoaheads-no-111

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftOwD2SIJ6E&list=UUpTDVzUkk9ieAyVyUi28bWw&index=4&t=18s

Gio Lodi

February 08, 2018
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  1. Things that didn’t happen Nobody died Nothing caught fire I

    didn’t get fired Only one person overrode the snooze
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  3. Cognitive control in media multitaskers Ophir, Nass, and Wagner Sept

    2009 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org/content/106/37/15583.full
  4. “The people we talk with continually said, look, when I

    really have to concentrate, I turn off everything and I am laser- focused. And unfortunately, they've developed habits of mind that make it impossible for them to be laser-focused. They're suckers for irrelevancy. They just can't keep on task.” -C. Nass https://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182861382/ the-myth-of-multitasking