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Re:The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digi... by et-al on Monday October 15, 2018 @10:49PM (#18226001)
A large part of this is how one choses to use their smartphone.

By default, it's a device that's receives a million notifications, but I've turned off most of them, so it's back to being a tiny computer that's helpful to look stuff up with. I only get notifications on four things:

1) phone calls - it's still a phone

2) "texts" (SMS/WhatsApp/iMessage/Line) - I disable Slack because it's too noisy aside from one "emergency" channel for work

3) one email account that notifies me of new gmail logins, foreign transactions, bank withdrawals, etc. to keep the junk mail away, i use filters on my other accounts to forward emails to this one special "notifications" account

4) financial ticker (which is set to only notify when something drops more than 5%)

Sure, I might miss some chats and I'm always behind on Twitter, but so what?

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Re:The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digi... by montenegrohugo on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @04:20AM (#18227630)
Why have the financial ticker? If you own stocks, do you plan on reacting to this notification? Do you see yourself as a professional day trader?

Imo the amount of noise is extreme in stock news and there is no value in listening to it. It is wasted attention and wasted emotion. Much better is to pick a few stocks/ETF's and invest on a longer horizon.

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Re:The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digi... by unstuckdev on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:44AM (#18229287)
I get the impression most stock news is generated, not written. Maybe they use the same software I heard was taking over in sports commentary.
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Re:The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digi... by novaRom on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:56AM (#18227506)
> which is set to only notify when something drops more than 5%

for what purpose? If you go long, you don't have to worry about any disturbance on the market. 5% per day or 5% per hour? Is there any difference if your stock will drop today 5% wrt yesterday or if it drops 5% this month relative to last month?

I don't look at such swings, it's meaningless.

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Re:The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digi... by waldfee on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:57AM (#18226942)
I do that too. I don't need to be up to date on everything, for what? I don't need all this useless stuff screaming at me all day
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