Ethar

“research continues to show that people who read linear text comprehend more, remember more, and learn more than those who read text peppered with links.”
― Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

“عليك أن تزرع فقط.. لست مسئولا عن النتائج أو حتى مراعاتها. المهم أن"تخلص" وقت العمل. كن صحابيًا في موقعة أحد..فقط الزم موقعك!”
― Ahmed Abdelhamid, من أوروبا البلد

“We want to be interrupted, because each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information. To turn off these alerts is to risk feeling out of touch, or even socially isolated.”
― Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

“Multitasking has been found to increase the production of the stress hormone cortisol as well as the fight-or-flight hormone adrenaline, which can overstimulate your brain and cause mental fog or scrambled thinking. Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation. To make matters worse, the prefrontal cortex has a novelty bias, meaning that its attention can be easily hijacked by something new—the proverbial shiny objects”
― Daniel J. Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload