Loving IKNS so far, but man, do I feel like I have a short attention span.
When I was in college, we didn't have all this new-fangled technology. So much information, so easily accessible (and that's the key), I just keep following links and reading fascinating things and absorbing and learning and then I realize, I'm getting away from the actual task - getting my homework done!
It's not like I'm "wasting" time, exactly. I'm not watching tv or playing games or goofing off. But I go check my twitter and follow an article link from The Economist, then one from the ABA Journal, then see something Richard Susskind tweeted and investigate that, and then see Ted News tweet about how the screenwriter for Contagion started out by watching a TED Talk and so on and so on...
I have to figure out how to rein in my curiosity, at least until I've finished my coursework :|
I feel compelled to follow all these information trails, because I worry that if I don't follow the links to things now, I won't come across them later, because I won't know to look for them. And I'm not too great at remembering sources (if I'm not specifically writing them down and citing them for a paper). For instance, in my research on Proctor & Gamble for my current class team project, I came across a page (pdf) on their website where they talk about how they have "begun to use Lofts, an immersive, multi-sensorial experience based on classic storytelling." I could swear I've read a story or article somewhere about something similar, but when I try to recall specifics, I can't pin them down, and I sure can't remember whether I read it online, or in a magazine, or in a book. I'd like to read that article/chapter/story again, but I can't even think what search terms to try on Google.
And none of that has anything to do with my homework. :\
Focus. I haz to find some...
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