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I was for the first time in my life living within the limits of my attention's resources. I was observing as much information as I could actually process, think about and contemplate. The fire hose of information was turned off. Instead, I was sipping water at the pace I chose.
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― Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
― Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
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My core fear is that we are, as a culture, as a species, becoming shallower; that we have turned from depth--from the Judeo-Christian premise of unfathomable mystery--and are adapting ourselves to the ersatz security of a vast lateral consciousness. That we are giving up on wisdom, the struggle for which has for millennia been central to the very idea of culture, and that we are pledging instead to a faith in the web. What is our idea, our ideal, of wisdom these days? Who represents it? Who even
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― The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
― The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
