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Re:'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a sma... by stinkytaco on Saturday October 07, 2017 @06:57PM (#15426132)
I can't really remember where I read it, but the concept of an "infinity pool" is what really gets me. I can listen to the news, read a magazine, or watch a show and it's done. But HN, Reddit, Twitter, etc are ever replenishing pools of distraction. That's where it's damaging for me, I know I can always go back for more.
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Re:'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a sma... by jarrettch on Saturday October 07, 2017 @07:11PM (#15426198)
Not only the new stuff that replenishes the pool, but often times when I find a new resource/subreddit that I don't know much about but find interesting, there's often a huge amount of info already there. So even depleting the pool of past information becomes a huge distraction, all while more stuff is piling on top.
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Re:'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a sma... by stinkytaco on Sunday October 08, 2017 @12:39PM (#15428850)
New hobbies and interests are the death of me. I am the personification of the "hacker" as defined in George Leonard's book Mastery.
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