Recent debates over the surge in horrific tragedies involving gun violence have rekindled the debate over media violence effects. Clearly, there are multiple contributors to the problem, especially the easy availability of guns, including assault-style weapons. But media violence is part of the problem, too, and neither of these influences should be ignored. Because I’ve …
Once you move to an e-reader, as I have, you’re bothered by the fact that you have to give it up for two relatively short periods of time—during airplane take-offs and landings. We’ve been told for years that anything with an on-off switch can interfere with the plane’s navigation system.
An article in the New York…
Now that we have these wonderful gadgets that allow us to stay connected at all times, most of us never seem to be able to truly get away. No matter how far we go, we can usually be reached on our cell phones, and with our Smartphones we’re tempted to log in to see what’s…
Yesterday I overheard a woman talking about her husband’s recent heart attack:
He came back from running feeling absolutely horrible, with tightness in his chest, but he thought it was just because of the cold air. She said to him, “it may be a heart attack. Let’s go to the emergency room.” He absolutely refused, saying,…
I talked about about conquering CyberOverload
on Wisconsin Public Radio (Wisconsin Ideas Network)
Listen to the show, in which I especially focus on helping businesses conquer cyberoverload.
It is archived here at 1/03/2013, 11:45 a.m.
Do you hear anyone complaining that they have too much time on their hands? Of course not. Everyone seems to have too much to do and not enough hours in the day to accomplish it — much less have time to relax.
The Incredible Cost of Interruptions
But recent research points to a solution: Stop letting yourself…
Is it just me, or is the monsoon of email rising like the earth’s oceans, ready to swamp you entirely if you don’t keep up every day? Give one political contribution and suddenly, every pol is your friend; join a professional organization and every related provider wants your business; and are there more and more…
It’s been amply demonstrated that the brain can’t multitask its attention. Because working memory is so small, we can’t process two streams of thought at the same time. Our brains switch back and forth between the two tasks and when we do this, we lose time, energy, accuracy, and quality. As I referred to it…
My last post talked about some of the advantages of using Twitter in a meeting: Keeping the audience’s attention; speeding up feedback; spontaneity; and enabling shy audience members to participate.
But I’m not sure the plusses would outweigh the minuses in most situations. I think it depends on what else is happening while the tweeting is…
No one knows better than I do the perils of having an audience use Twitter. I’ve been writing and speaking on the problem of digital distractions for years. The verdict is in on multitasking – we can’t do it; whenever we try to do two things at once, both tasks suffer, especially when both tasks involve…