Thought this was a pretty cool photo of Herbert recording sounds for his new album. In case you can't tell from the photo, he's mic'ing a little chick. Wonder what the chick's thinking...
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Herbert at Work
Thought this was a pretty cool photo of Herbert recording sounds for his new album. In case you can't tell from the photo, he's mic'ing a little chick. Wonder what the chick's thinking...
Friday, July 22, 2005
Driven to Distraction
My wife read In Praise of Slowness last year during some stressful work times and found the book sensible and enlightening. I noticed this article and forwarded it to her at work (thereby interrupting any 8 minutes of concentration she had going). I thought others might enjoy it as well.
The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state.
The result, says Carl Honore, journalist and author of In Praise of Slowness, is a situation where the digital communications that were supposed to make working lives run more smoothly are actually preventing people from getting critical tasks accomplished.
Read more here.
The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state.
The result, says Carl Honore, journalist and author of In Praise of Slowness, is a situation where the digital communications that were supposed to make working lives run more smoothly are actually preventing people from getting critical tasks accomplished.
Read more here.
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