notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

Four Links, Vaguely Connected

How The City Hurts Your Brain, The Boston Globe

“We’ve constructed a world that’s always drawing down from the same mental account,” Kuo says. “And then we’re surprised when [after spending time in the city] we can’t focus at home.”

The End Of Alone, The Boston Globe:

At our desk, on the road, or on a remote beach, the world is a tap away. It’s so cool. And yet it’s not. What we lose with our constant connectedness

Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains, Wired Science

This degree of interruption is correlated with stress and frustration and lowered creativity. That makes sense. When you’re scattered and diffuse, you’re less creative. When your times of reflection are always punctured, it’s hard to go deeply into problem-solving, into relating, into thinking.

Twitter, Communication, and My Intermittent Inner Luddite

What does that have to do with Twitter, one might ask? Well, while the main means by which Newspeak was implemented was simplifying and subtly changing the inference of words, another element was the extreme condensation of communication