Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesnโt matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.
Kevin DrumThe media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.
Kevin DrumI'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.
Kevin DrumThe folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but theyโre still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. Thatโs bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything.
Kevin Drum