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Jessica Wakeman: Eulogy for Dead Trees - Media on The Huffington Post - 0 views

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shared by Paul Ryan on 12 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Paul Ryan on 12 Jun 08
     
    A lot of us who go into journalism are completely sheltered and naive about what it actually entails, disillusioned by unrealistic portrayals in movies that lack the actual two-weeks-standing-on-your-feet-and-Photocopying and ulcer-inducing insecurity that we face in our pursuit of a byline. I myself have a long history of being boondoggled by pop culture: I applied to NYU because I thought it'd be just like Greenwich Village in the 1950s, all beatniks in berets, poetic and artistic and sipping coffee over a dog-eared Village Voice. Naive, right? (I hope charmingly so.) For the most part, that fantasy has resurfaced as the gold ring to strive for in my albeit short career as a professional journalist.
Paul Ryan

Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn't as smart as it thinks - Times Online - 0 views

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shared by Paul Ryan on 09 Aug 08 - Cached
  • But the damage is not caused by overwork, it’s caused by multiple distracted work. One American study found that interruptions take up 2.1 hours of the average knowledge worker’s day. This, it was estimated, cost the US economy $588 billion a year. Yet the rabidly multitasking distractee is seen as some kind of social and economic ideal.
  • “The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have lost,” says Bill McKibben, the great environmentalist.
  • “I feel that much of my life is ebbing away in the tide of minute-by-minute distraction . . . I’m not certain what the effect on the world will be. But psychologists do say that intense close engagement with things does provide the most human satisfaction.” The psychologists are right. McKibben describes himself as “loving novelty” and yet “craving depth”, the contemporary predicament in a nutshell.
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  • Paul Ryan on 09 Aug 08
     
    The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate.
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