distraction Archives - CLIPPING CHAINS https://clippingchains.com/tag/distraction/ Funding the Adventurous Life Sat, 04 May 2024 18:33:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://i0.wp.com/clippingchains.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-TEST_CC_Logo-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 distraction Archives - CLIPPING CHAINS https://clippingchains.com/tag/distraction/ 32 32 150809980 What Two Writers Taught Me About How to Think https://clippingchains.com/2024/05/06/what-two-writers-taught-me-about-how-to-think/ https://clippingchains.com/2024/05/06/what-two-writers-taught-me-about-how-to-think/#respond Mon, 06 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=10035 In 1949, a college junior named Barbara Beattie wrote a letter for a school journalism assignment. We can only speculate on Beattie’s youthful expectations: Was she so naive to expect a response, or were these different times? She’d written playwright Arthur Miller at a time when the Broadway run of his most famous work, The …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2024/05/06/what-two-writers-taught-me-about-how-to-think/feed/ 0 10035 The Power of the Four-Hour Work Day (even in retirement) https://clippingchains.com/2023/02/06/four-hour-work-day/ https://clippingchains.com/2023/02/06/four-hour-work-day/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2023 07:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=9199 We live in a distracted world where depth of investigation is discouraged. Despite increases in scientific spending, the number of publications, or the amount of PhDs being awarded, major discoveries in science and engineering have declined significantly in recent decades. The new-music market is shrinking, and old hits are dominating. We are working more days …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2023/02/06/four-hour-work-day/feed/ 4 9199 Digital Minimalism: Give Me Back My Brain https://clippingchains.com/2019/06/10/digital-minimalism-give-me-back-my-brain/ https://clippingchains.com/2019/06/10/digital-minimalism-give-me-back-my-brain/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:00:21 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=2121 We’ve all seen the dramatic shift to mobile technology in the last decade. This explosion of digital information is making us freaks and zombies. I’ve just finished reading Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport. The message here to get back our brain is so important that I started …

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