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Workplace distractions can leave you feeling stressed, exhausted, and overworked. You’ve been hopeful for a raise but you know that your boss has noticed that your performance and behavior is not up to your usual standards. Focusing used to be a lot easier but as time goes on you let “all the things” stand in […]
Aaron Bernstein / Reuters On Friday Elon Musk emailed Tesla employees and told them to “ignore all distractions” as the third quarter comes to a close. Tesla’s stock started crashing after hours on Thursday when the SEC filed a lawsuit against Musk for making false statements about the company, including his claim that he would […]
Writing about AI for any appreciable amount of time is, in my experience, enough to make any reasonable person concerned about the future of humanity. But I worry the focus of that concern is too often directed at the relatively distant future, which could lead to unforeseen consequences in the present. Headlines from the past […]
FOR many it is a reflex as unconscious as breathing. Hit a stumbling-block during an important task (like, say, writing a column)? The hand reaches for the phone and opens the social network of choice. A blur of time passes, and half an hour or more of what ought to have been productive effort is […]
Now that we’ve all got streaming, on-demand music in the car with our phones, it’s hard not to want to fiddle with our playlists while driving. Obviously, messing with your device on the road is as bad as texting, though. As reported on The Verge, Spotify seems to be testing a new driving mode feature […]
Alex Segre/Shutterstock Is distraction a curse or a blessing? Not giving full attention to what we should be doing makes us miss deadlines, fail classes, and crash into other drivers. Distraction certainly has a price. Nonetheless, we love our distractions! Social media, spectator sports, movies, books, TV shows, the news, video games — what would […]
GUEST: One of the main arguments the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari makes in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is that humans differ from other species because we can cooperate flexibly in large numbers, united in cause and spirit not by anything real, but by the fictions of our collective imagination. Examples of these fictions […]
Image credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Cars crashing into each other is bad, 100 percent. We would all like to avoid this. And we should also avoid hitting pedestrians with our cars, because that’s really bad, too. Apparently, it happened a lot last year. Advertisement New data from the Governors Highway Safety Association shows that there […]
