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Does science have a bullying problem?
August 11, 2019NYTimes: Walmart Shooting in El Paso Renews Attention on Crime Frequency at Its Stores
August 11, 2019Compelling argument against Slack
May 27, 2019Stop Letting Modern Distractions Steal Your Attention
Making yourself inaccessible from time to time is essential to boosting your focus.
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This kind of task switching comes with a cost. It’s called attention residue, a term established by Sophie Leroy, a professor at the Bothell School of Business at the University of Washington. In a 2009 study, Dr. Leroy found that if people transition their attention away from an unfinished task, their subsequent task performance will suffer. For example, if you interrupt writing an email to reply to a text message, it will take time to refocus when you turn your attention back to finishing your email. That little bit of time of adjusting your focus — the residue — compounds throughout the day. As we fragment our attention, fatigue and stress increases, which negatively affects performance.
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At the very least, she said, start leaving your phone behind during certain periods of the day, and perhaps establishing no-phone zones in your house or workplace. Treat it as an experiment: Try things and see what makes you feel good, she said.
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Import iTunes playlists to Spotify
May 25, 2019Save itunes playlist as a .txt file & then upload it to sound https://soundiiz.com/tutorial/itunes-to-spotify
How it Works – Luggage Shipping With Luggage Free
May 12, 2019https://www.luggagefree.com/how-it-works/
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The Factory | The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop
May 4, 2019https://www.eliwhitney.org/7/museum/about-eli-whitney/factory QT:{{”
The role that Whitney played in early American technology has been debated, however. Whitney’s work in making muskets from a number of interchangeable parts once identified him as the sole originator of the idea. But tests on a collection of Whitney muskets indicate that all their parts were not interchangeable.
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