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It seems that every 6 hours, some other blogger witnesses the great epiphany that when you greatly reduce your daily distractions, you are greatly less distract

by anyfoo 14y ago

It seems that every 6 hours, some other blogger witnesses the great epiphany that when you greatly reduce your daily distractions, you are greatly less distracted. Insightful.

mooreds 14y ago
I found the article interesting because he was talking about how mobile distractions could be better managed: "Now, I’d love for there to be a way for me to know about high priority interrupts – things that actually are urgent. But my iPhone doesn’t do this at all in any discernable way. There are too many different channels to reach me and they aren’t effectively conditioned – I either have to open them up to everyone (e.g. txtmsg via my phone number) or convince people to use a specific piece of software – many, such as Glassboard – which are very good, but do require intentional behavior on both sides." Again, not rocket science, but considering on the production side there are many folks jockeying for attention on your mobile device (download my app, use my app) it is interesting to hear from someone who funds some of those companies that a break is needed. I for one will be interested to follow along as he tries other methods to increase effectiveness of the immediacy of his smartphone "interrupts".
- gte910h 14y ago
  Both apple and android (modern versions) have methods to allow most noise to be blocked, but "emergencies" to get through. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how-to-set-and-use-do-not-disturb-in-ios-6 http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how-to-set-and-use-do... I don't know the specific android thing, but do know people who use it.
mikeyouse 14y ago
Except "some other blogger" in this case is Brad Feld, cofounder of TechStars and MD at the Foundry Group. This has implications beyond the obvious 'distractions are distracting' articles for startups and the surrounding community. A big value-add of HN is aggregation of trends in investing. PG obviously interacts directly, but linking to opinion pieces from Fred Wilson or Brad Feld clearly has a place too.

by anyfoo 14y ago

It seems that every 6 hours, some other blogger witnesses the great epiphany that when you greatly reduce your daily distractions, you are greatly less distracted. Insightful.

mooreds 14y ago

I found the article interesting because he was talking about how mobile distractions could be better managed: "Now, I’d love for there to be a way for me to know about high priority interrupts – things that actually are urgent. But my iPhone doesn’t do this at all in any discernable way. There are too many different channels to reach me and they aren’t effectively conditioned – I either have to open them up to everyone (e.g. txtmsg via my phone number) or convince people to use a specific piece of software – many, such as Glassboard – which are very good, but do require intentional behavior on both sides." Again, not rocket science, but considering on the production side there are many folks jockeying for attention on your mobile device (download my app, use my app) it is interesting to hear from someone who funds some of those companies that a break is needed. I for one will be interested to follow along as he tries other methods to increase effectiveness of the immediacy of his smartphone "interrupts".

gte910h 14y ago
Both apple and android (modern versions) have methods to allow most noise to be blocked, but "emergencies" to get through. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how-to-set-and-use-do-not-disturb-in-ios-6 http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how-to-set-and-use-do... I don't know the specific android thing, but do know people who use it.

mikeyouse 14y ago

Except "some other blogger" in this case is Brad Feld, cofounder of TechStars and MD at the Foundry Group. This has implications beyond the obvious 'distractions are distracting' articles for startups and the surrounding community. A big value-add of HN is aggregation of trends in investing. PG obviously interacts directly, but linking to opinion pieces from Fred Wilson or Brad Feld clearly has a place too.