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For those of you who think that you are witnessing a 50 year old's meltdown, consider this—a 20-something said to me recently, "Linda, I quit every social network I was on so I could actually have dinner with people." When I speak about continuous partial attention to groups of young people, they resonate, they beg for strategies—they want a better quality of life. This 24/7 thing isn't feeling so good and more and more people want to feel better. Continuous partial attention, anytime, anywhere, any place technologies, the era of connect, connect, connect, is contributing to a feeling of overwhelm, over-stimulation and a sense of being unfulfilled. Wikis are better for brainstorming. I.M. is better for making a plan. Telephones and IM may be better for crisis management. Every type of communication from conflict resolution to crisis management to planning to information sharing falls most naturally somewhere on that grid. Conflict resolution is best done synchronously and in high bandwidth (eg, face to face). Crisis management is best done synchronously at any bandwidth from high to low. Information sharing can easily be done asynchronously, and often in low bandwidth. "Discernment Discerning opportunity—what do we REALLY need and want to pay attention to? Attention IS our scarcest and most valuable resource. What we do with our attention defines us." For the last two decades, give or take, ease of use has been the mantra of every technology columnist, every product manager in every high tech. company. It's good. But it's no longer good enough. The new mantra, the new differentiator, the new opportunity for all of us is: improves quality of life. Does this product, service, feature, message—enhance and improve our quality of life? Does it help us protect, filter, create a meaningful connection? Discern? Use our attention as well and as wisely as we possibly can? Dee Hock, back in 1996, said: * Noise becomes data when it has a cognitive
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For those of you who think that you are witnessing a 50 year old's meltdown, consider this—a 20-something said to me recently, "Linda, I quit every social network I was on so I could actually have dinner with people." When I speak about continuous partial attention to groups of young people, they resonate, they beg for strategies—they want a better quality of life. This 24/7 thing isn't feeling so good and more and more people want to feel better. Continuous partial attention, anytime, anywhere, any place technologies, the era of connect, connect, connect, is contributing to a feeling of overwhelm, over-stimulation and a sense of being unfulfilled. Wikis are better for brainstorming. I.M. is better for making a plan. Telephones and IM may be better for crisis management. Every type of communication from conflict resolution to crisis management to planning to information sharing falls most naturally somewhere on that grid. Conflict resolution is best done synchronously and in high bandwidth (eg, face to face). Crisis management is best done synchronously at any bandwidth from high to low. Information sharing can easily be done asynchronously, and often in low bandwidth. "Discernment Discerning opportunity—what do we REALLY need and want to pay attention to? Attention IS our scarcest and most valuable resource. What we do with our attention defines us." For the last two decades, give or take, ease of use has been the mantra of every technology columnist, every product manager in every high tech. company. It's good. But it's no longer good enough. The new mantra, the new differentiator, the new opportunity for all of us is: improves quality of life. Does this product, service, feature, message—enhance and improve our quality of life? Does it help us protect, filter, create a meaningful connection? Discern? Use our attention as well and as wisely as we possibly can? Dee Hock, back in 1996, said: * Noise becomes data when it has a cognitive
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For those of you who think that you are witnessing a 50 year old's meltdown, consider this—a 20-something said to me recently, "Linda, I quit every social network I was on so I could actually have dinner with people." When I speak about continuous partial attention to groups of young people, they resonate, they beg for strategies—they want a better quality of life. This 24/7 thing isn't feeling so good and more and more people want to feel better. Continuous partial attention, anytime, anywhere, any place technologies, the era of connect, connect, connect, is contributing to a feeling of overwhelm, over-stimulation and a sense of being unfulfilled. Wikis are better for brainstorming. I.M. is better for making a plan. Telephones and IM may be better for crisis management. Every type of communication from conflict resolution to crisis management to planning to information sharing falls most naturally somewhere on that grid. Conflict resolution is best done synchronously and in high bandwidth (eg, face to face). Crisis management is best done synchronously at any bandwidth from high to low. Information sharing can easily be done asynchronously, and often in low bandwidth. "Discernment Discerning opportunity—what do we REALLY need and want to pay attention to? Attention IS our scarcest and most valuable resource. What we do with our attention defines us." For the last two decades, give or take, ease of use has been the mantra of every technology columnist, every product manager in every high tech. company. It's good. But it's no longer good enough. The new mantra, the new differentiator, the new opportunity for all of us is: improves quality of life. Does this product, service, feature, message—enhance and improve our quality of life? Does it help us protect, filter, create a meaningful connection? Discern? Use our attention as well and as wisely as we possibly can? Dee Hock, back in 1996, said: * Noise becomes data when it has a cognitive
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