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Currently reading Stolen Focus by Johann Hari and trying to take back most of the four hours a day I spend on my phone. #StolenFocus #Distraction

Trying to cut down unintentional phone usage. I tend to open some apps on my phone reflexively (mail, Reddit, Mastodon) and doom scroll without even realising what I am doing.

Found this app (iChooseTo on #android) that puts a delay in app launch. Now all my apps have a 10 seconds waiting period where I get to think, do I really need to use this app right now?

It's been working great!

#productivity #indistractable #StolenFocus

Interessanter Artikel aus dem März, via @mbms und @werawelt:

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· Wie schädlich ist die digitale Informationsflut? ·
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»Durch die Omnipräsenz von Informationen werden wir täglich mit weit mehr Daten konfrontiert, als wir verarbeiten können.«

Uns alle hindert »die Fülle an digitalen Informationen daran, diese zu verdauen und Entscheidungen zu treffen. Das senkt unsere Zufriedenheit im Job und unsere Motivation und macht und insgesamt unglücklicher.«

https://www.scinexx.de/news/technik/wie-schaedlich-ist-die-digitale-informationsflut/

#Informationsverschmutzung #Smartphone #SocialMedia #StolenFocus #Internet #Information #EinfachMalAusschalten #KeinSmartphone

In the attempt to tease out ALL aspects of how modern people are losing focus in a fast-paced world, Hari makes the mistake of covering everything for everyone everywhere at once—and ends up losing focus in the narrative. The irony. #StolenFocus #JohannHari #BookChat #booksky

A large proportion of men sticks to non-fiction when reading. While this expands their knowledge it doesn’t have the empathy-expanding effect reading fiction does. With the proportion of men in leading positions, we should worry. #StolenFocus #JohannHari #BookChat #bookstodon

It’s Book Week Scotland. What are you all reading? I’m spending time with this gem and #StolenFocus by #JohannHari. #SmallIsland #AndreaLevy #WomensPrize #BookChat #bookstodon #BookWeekScotland

La impactante advertencia de Johann Hari: "Hemos perdido el superpoder de nuestra especie y no es solo por culpa del móvil"

"No somos campesinos medievales mendigando alrededor del castillo del rey Zuckerberg para que nos devuelva algunas migajas de nuestra atención. Somos ciudadanos libres de democracias y dueños de nuestras mentes. Podemos recuperar la atención si nos lo proponemos."

#JohannHari #Atencion #RedesSociales #StolenFocus #Libertad
https://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2023-04-23/entrevista-johann-hari_3616128/

I've monitored #COVID news since 2020. My strong opinion: the top perpetuator of COVID misinformation = shrinking attention spans & evaporating news rituals. https://nytimes.com/2023/01/15/business/auburn-tiktok-ban-students.html Kudos to these colleges which removed their TikTok accounts 👍. Publishing to a TikTok account is an endorsement of the medium. Auburn revoked their video-only social media endorsement. #literacy #stolenfocus #video #text #misinformation #disinformation

This explains why I find it tough to read on the Ipad. The glare is bad enough, but the restlessness that I feel when reading is hard to deal with. The constant nagging of "Check #SocialMedia !" or Notifications suddenly popping up etc.

This is tragic because Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi says that the simplest and most common form of "flow" that people experience is reading a book but the constant distraction is disrupting this. 2/2

#Reading #StolenFocus #AmReading #NonFiction

Reading Stolen Focus. The chapter, "The Collapse of Sustained Reading", revealed that the screen is "training" us to read differently.

We tend to skip and scan when reading on screens. But if we do it long enough, it will bleed onto other areas, causing us to read on paper the same way. - Anne Mangen, professor of literacy at Stavanger University in Norway 1/2

#Reading #StolenFocus #AmReading #NonFiction

Wrote a new book review and summary.

Stolen Focus: Why you can't pay attention -- and How to think deeply again

https://njoseph.me/mediawiki/Books/Stolen_Focus

#Books #StolenFocus #AttentionCrisis #CruelOptimism #SurveillanceCapitalism #Hypervigilance #MentalHealth #Flow