Comments on: #51 – Attention and sex

By: The new serendipity? « Scott Berkun

The new serendipity? « Scott Berkun — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:51:52 +0000

[...] If you look outside your window, and do it with generous attention, there is ‘too much information’ there too. Every tree has a thousand leaves, every leaf millions of different colored cells, each divided into parts and pools of chemicals and microscopic organisms and natural machines. Open your ears and you’ll hear the calls of animals, or neighbors, looking for food or love. Look to the sky and you’ll see patterns and forms never seen before by your eyes, shifting in endless cycles, never resting, for all time. Look too closely at anything and you can go mad as you realize the infinity of information inside. If anything our brains filter things out – that’s how you survive, or thrive, by knowing what to pay attention to and when. [...]

By: Team Rooms Aren’t That Agile « Mental Pandiculation

Team Rooms Aren’t That Agile « Mental Pandiculation — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:36:58 +0000

[...] reading (as if you made it this far): Holding A Program In One’s Head Attention and Sex Human Task Switches Considered [...]

By: Laserlike Focus In A Thunderstorm « Mental Pandiculation

Laserlike Focus In A Thunderstorm « Mental Pandiculation — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:58:49 +0000

[...] well as they could using undivided attention. I’ve written about Scott Berkun’s article Attention and Sex before but it still rings so true. No novel, no symphony, no scientific discovery, no anything has [...]