How to combat technology overload

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"The internet and other technology keeps us on insanely high alert, ultimately producing an effect where we attend to everything and we attend to nothing (deeply)," L.L. Barkat writes in a post that discusses overload's physiological effects and suggests ways of curbing the beast: "When you let yourself get carried away by the high-alert cycle and give in to its constant interruptions … it takes you about twenty-five minutes to fully return to your original project."

September 26, 2013

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