For a long time I’ve told people “I’m not really a coder. I hate programming.” It’s true that when I took Assembly Language and C++ in college, I barely scraped by and mostly hated every minute. The only part I didn’t hate, in fact, was when I finally wrote something that worked, and this was… Continue reading Wherein I reveal that I’m actually a big fat liar
Tag: psychology
The web is a distraction engine
Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Wired Magazine. This article has forced me to think hard about a couple things: 1) that I should reconsider my notification settings for Twitter and other social media. As the article says, most of those live, up-to-the-minute updates aren’t actually all that interesting; most of… Continue reading The web is a distraction engine