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N.A.D.D.
Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder

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09 Feb 09

Marcelo de Vasconcellos
- N.A.D.D.
- Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder
22 Jan 09

Howard Rheingold
Stop reading right now and take a look at your desktop. How many things are you doing right now in addition to reading this column? Me, I’ve got a terminal session open to a chat room, I’m listening to music, I’ve got Safari open with three tabs open wher

attention
27 Oct 08

Kimberly Watrud
diagnosis lol
01 Oct 08

Tammy Welshon
Comedy NADD
24 May 08

Chris Lott
Yes, I suffer sometimes from NADD, minus the television

linklog attention productivity
12 May 08

Aimee Babcock-Ellis
blog blogging culture blogs fun humor funny psychology productivity geek
19 Apr 08

Cherrie K
random nadd nerd attention deficiency disorder blog
- However, if your friend is anxiously rubbing their forehead and/or climbing out of their skin when you move that icon 12 PIXELS TO THE RIGHT, there’s NADD in the house. BACK AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER
- NADDers have an amazingly ability to focus when they choose to
08 Jan 08

Sean Carmody
Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder

geek productivity blog culture psychology
26 Nov 07

Josiah Ritchie
A discussion of the ways that nerds and geeks handle information.

geek personality me fun
10 Sep 07

David Habib
08 Sep 07

Chu Yeow Cheah
Nerd ADD.
07 Sep 07

Isaac Pigott
geek productivity funny psychology occam internet essay delicious
27 Feb 07

ashley
geek humor that'ssome
- N.A.D.D.
20 Dec 06

eliazar
.blog add funny imported:del.icio.us linkstream nadd productivity
26 Sep 06

Laura Lo Forti
Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder: is there a cure??

humor blog culture geek
19 Sep 06

gabe martin
blog imported:del.icio.us
07 Sep 06

spofdamon
Technology
- Stop reading right now. Look at your desktop. How many tasks are you working on besides reading this weblog? A lot? You've got N.A.D.D.
19 May 06

Jeremy Price
article attention behavior blog culture internet multitasking technology
08 Dec 05

jenny benevento
ADD
23 Oct 05

Martin Lindner
Nerds Attention Deficiency Disorder ("Folks, this isn’t multi-tasking. This is advanced case of Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder. I am unable to function at my desktop unless I’ve got, at least, five things going on at the same time. If your count c

multitasking microtasking attention attention_partial deli
24 Jul 05

Triple Entendre
Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder

focus attention distraction firehose
09 Apr 05

jaysen
funny blog imported.delicious
16 Feb 04

Jessica Winblad
this was soo hilarious, I couldn't help cracking up about how much this IS me. When Nick said that the article reminded him all too much of a number of his friends, he was soooo talking about me there ;-)

Answer to the question posed in the blurb clipp
- Stop reading right now and take a look at your desktop. How many things are you doing right now in addition to reading this column?
  
  Folks, this isn't multi-tasking. This is advanced case of Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder.
  
  "How can you focus on anything with all this stuff going on?" I responded, "Mom, I can't focus without all this noise."
  
  However, if your friend is anxiously rubbing their forehead and/or climbing out of their skin when you move that icon 12 PIXELS TO THE RIGHT, there's NADD in the house. BACK AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER.
  
  My guess would be that the population of regular webloggers is mostly NADD-afflicted. Otherwise, they'd be writing books... not paragraphs... at random times of the day... always.
  
  NADD is the perfect disease for managing this situation. It develops the skills to sift through the colossal amount of useless noise and hear what's relevant