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Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
siliconbits writes with an excerpt from NY Times: "Technology makes the tiniest windows of time entertaining, and potentially productive. But scientists point to an unanticipated side effect: when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas."
In Soviet Russia digital devices....AHAHAHAHAHA...ROFL!!
So getting distracted to post on /. is planned?
1. Read three posts per hour
2. Read TFA every three hours
3. Post a comment every seven hours.
>>>If only most of us could do that, rather than having shitty pointy-haired micromanager bosses who insist on minute-by-minute "productivity" scales.
Pretty much spot on. Today's managers are almost all dicks, especially since a lot of them have ZERO technical knowledge.
OLD BOSS (fired by the company)
NEW BOSS (tasked with cutting costs): Hello I'm pointy-haired bosses' replacement. And oh yeah, we're terminating your contract.
ME: Why? I thought everything was going great. Look at all the work I accomplished last week (points to status report).
BOSS: We heard from an engineer that you were watching FOX News on company time.
ME: Yeah but it was during my lunch break. Didn't the engineer tell you I was stuffing a sandwich in my mouth at the time?
BOSS: Doesn't matter. Also you held-up yesterday's 11 o'clock meeting by being late.
ME: I was sitting in my seat at 10:55.
BOSS: You should have been there earlier. .....
ME:
BOSS: Well why are you still standing here? Leave or I'm calling security.
ME: Bitch.
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