news said: Today, the constant pinging of your e-mail can be like the drip-drip-drip of water torture. We're swimming in doodads and options — text messaging and search engines, Blackberries and blogs, Wi-fi, cell phones that try to do all of the above, and the promise that we haven't seen anything yet.
this is so true.
i suffer from this extremely. lately (the last yr) i cannot get any work done as the distractions and attempting to multi-task just prove to be too much.
as humans, i don't think it is possible for us to do true multi-tasking.. i think we do what is called 'time-slicing' which a process where you switch rapidly between tasks -- which, on the surface appears to be multi-tasking.
Agreed 110%. Funny you should mention this, as I'm currently trying to figure out a way to break the vicious cycle.
Further compounding the problem is that people in the business world have come to expect instantaneous answers to email, so I can't just turn it off until 6PM every day, or whatever.
think i am subconsciously avoiding/ignoring my priorities and allowing distractions to rule my days so that they will become toxic and force me to abandon everything but my single minded selfish goals.. or maybe that a bunch of horseshit and i'm fucked-
if there were no people on the interwad that i thought were interesting enough to interact with, then i would never get distracted.. but its like working in an office with loads of funny clever talented people around.. im interested to know what theyre up to.
mmh, I definitely know the problem but enjoying work definitely lessens the urge to "connect". when trying to work on theoretical stuff like papers for abstract university stuff the threshold is lower and I check here and look there, wander around my usual browsing patterns and the like.
However, as not to completely blame the "net", other people in the same room that distract
you are even worse in my case. The only thing the Net does is "always being there".
women are better multitaskers in general it seems.
ya .. this computer does become a problem .. and when i get my network up an runnin, i'll never have to leave my room again ..
the reason the internet is a problem for meeee is that i always end up sitting here or in my room on the computer .. doin whatever .. and if i dont get outside, then i dont get the distance from my music that i need to push forward with it .. i dunno about you guys, but im a REAL big fan of the "sleep on it " approach .. alot of the time thats the only way i can finish a song or a section orr whatever .. and its the same if i dont get enough outdoors action in in a day. time stops moving and i just waste hours and hours making sounds that .. when i throw em into the mix .. sound compleatly unrelated to the stuff i had been working on ..
so i just spent a few hours putting chicken wire around the bottom of the fence .. and i went inside, sat down .. and made some progress on a song! ...
and ya . the compulsion to check this every five min's ..
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