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Work Ethic – My response to Cal Newport’s Article

Work ethic. It’s all about ethic. Well, if success is what you’re after. This is something that I and a great deal of others hold to be self-evident. It is also an idea championed by Cal Newport in his celebrated blog series. Newport, an assistant professor of computer science, takes aim at the concept of…

Class Brainstorm – Media – Immediate Response

Media is an extremely complex thing to define. Put simply it is the varios ways in which information is mediated. Put less simply: as beings with five senses, media is everything. But to bring this down to earth, what do I think of when I hear the word ‘media’? Mediation – transfer of ideas Influential…

Deep vs Hyper Attention

The question of the merit of deep vs hyper attention-span is a prickly one to confront. It is unpleasant because at some point it leads to a self-reflection of how efficient am I? It can be constructive in this sense, but nonetheless unpleasant. It is a question explored by N. Katherine Hayles in this article…