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Jun 08

Manage your Time or your Attention?

So here is the question. How do you stay productive? Do you manage your Time, or do you manage your Attention? Linda Stone wrote an excellent piece at O’Reilly Radar on Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?

In the cases where people reported managing their time, they more often reported experiencing burn-out, they didn’t know how much longer they could go on at their particular job or lifestyle. There was often a sense of helplessness and overwhelm.
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In almost every case [where people manage their attention], these professionals reported experiencing “flow” (a la Csikszentmihalyi) in their work.

 

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Jun 08

Instant Messaging causes Less Interruption

Matthew E. May, who wrote The Elegant Solution Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation, reports that:

“researchers found that workers who used instant messaging on the job reported less interruption than colleagues who did not.”

Which is absolutely amazing because it’s the exact opposite of conventional wisdom. I can’t even tell you how many people I’ve heard shoot down IM because it’s “more ways for people to interrupt me”.

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