Mindful Technology with Liza Kindred
User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth
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The Effects of Social Media on Deep Work
In psychology, I believe that's called selective attention. Cal Newport is a millennial who's never had a social media account. The more we are actually engaged with the work we're doing and like shunning all distractions, the better quality our work happens to be. Even our computers can't multitask. They have to multifocus also. It may seem like they're multitasking, but no, they're actually finishing a task before they go on to another one. When it tries to multitask, it slows everything down and doesn't perform as well. So we can learn from our computers too.
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