http://antimeria.com/blog/news/i-hate-arguments-like-this a complete impediment to understanding Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:36:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://antimeria.com/blog/news/i-hate-arguments-like-this/comment-page-1#comment-522 maggie jackson Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:34:03 +0000 http://antimeria.com/blog/?p=1050#comment-522 Good point about the need to analyze and verify but how ironic that you mention those skills in a posting that relies on a blog that picked up on a brief online interview - all by people who've never even looked at my book! (And btw, take another look at MindHacks for some very different posts on the book. He actually agrees with many of my points.) I'm not dissing google or the lovely efficiences that our technologies bring us, in thought or relationships. But along with multitasking, skimming, hyper-connecting etc, we need to able to focus and connect deeply. And that's where our current culture of fragmentation, diffusion and speed falls short. Half of college students can't judge the objectivity of a web site. Office workers now switch tasks every 3 minutes - a workstyle related to higher stress and lower creativity. Multitasking while studying is correlated with shallow learning. And we're hyperconnected, yet are we really communicating? Are we making the best use of our tools? Good point about the need to analyze and verify but how ironic that you mention those skills in a posting that relies on a blog that picked up on a brief online interview – all by people who’ve never even looked at my book! (And btw, take another look at MindHacks for some very different posts on the book. He actually agrees with many of my points.)
I’m not dissing google or the lovely efficiences that our technologies bring us, in thought or relationships. But along with multitasking, skimming, hyper-connecting etc, we need to able to focus and connect deeply. And that’s where our current culture of fragmentation, diffusion and speed falls short. Half of college students can’t judge the objectivity of a web site. Office workers now switch tasks every 3 minutes – a workstyle related to higher stress and lower creativity. Multitasking while studying is correlated with shallow learning. And we’re hyperconnected, yet are we really communicating? Are we making the best use of our tools?

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