Even before smartphones, I advocated to those around me to protect/control one's attention above all else, because all else within you is downstream from that. Within a year of their release, I posted on Facebook (back when I had it), "You don't need push notifications; you need a better polling strategy." Everyone in my immediate network disagreed, because it was "inefficient" for them to check their phone all the time.
However, even with the notifications, these same people check their phone all the time anyway, just in case they missed something. Surely they're just checking to see if the time reads five minutes later than when they last checked it, since they can't focus enough on whatever else they're doing to tend to anything other than watching the clock.
A majority of people are turning over their most valuable asset to the whims of the people and systems outside of themselves, inviting chaos into any given minute of their day. Never mind the inefficiency of this; when system function is moved outside of that system, the internal paths for that function within that system degrade.
In this case, we're talking about discernment about what is important and false equivalence between urgency and importance -- generally-speaking, people (as systems), are degrading their internal pathways that determine urgency vs importance for themselves.
Even before smartphones, I advocated to those around me to protect/control one's attention above all else, because all else within you is downstream from that. Within a year of their release, I posted on Facebook (back when I had it), "You don't need push notifications; you need a better polling strategy." Everyone in my immediate network disagreed, because it was "inefficient" for them to check their phone all the time.
However, even with the notifications, these same people check their phone all the time anyway, just in case they missed something. Surely they're just checking to see if the time reads five minutes later than when they last checked it, since they can't focus enough on whatever else they're doing to tend to anything other than watching the clock.
A majority of people are turning over their most valuable asset to the whims of the people and systems outside of themselves, inviting chaos into any given minute of their day. Never mind the inefficiency of this; when system function is moved outside of that system, the internal paths for that function within that system degrade.
In this case, we're talking about discernment about what is important and false equivalence between urgency and importance -- generally-speaking, people (as systems), are degrading their internal pathways that determine urgency vs importance for themselves.