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Michael Downey 🧢

🤔 ICYMI from April, a good (long-form!) essay about how to (in general, but also and in particular) is affecting human spans in a negative way.

💡 Raises an interesting idea about it causing or reinforcing cultural "learned helplessness" that crosses over into many other areas of modern tech-facilitated life. (Something @lightweight has long discussed.)

🔖 Take a read this weekend and tell us what you think?

idratherbewriting.com/blog/awa

I’d Rather Be WritingMy awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention spanI recently realized that absorbing the constant inflow of information from my smartphone, always readily available in my pocket to capture any free moment of attention, had fragmented my attention span.
Jul 01, 2022, 03:37 PM·Public
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