Kill Thy Productivity Killer
NY Times: Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast
The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. It is a common complaint. But now the very companies that helped create the flood are trying to mop it up.Some of the biggest technology firms, including Microsoft, Intel, Google and I.B.M., are banding together to fight information overload. Last week they formed a nonprofit group to study the problem, publicize it and devise ways to help workers — theirs and others — cope with the digital deluge.
Their effort comes as statistical and anecdotal evidence mounts that the same technology tools that have led to improvements in productivity can be counterproductive if overused.
Oh man! This seems a problem to all of us, including me who is addicted much to blogging/rss/twitter than, rather to say, working :-) Blogging is so to spend the time along. So does reading hundreds of rss items. And, twitter (twitting?). But we need to get back to real life, or some say it as work, and have our time digging through some of boring stuff.
I do not know about you. But sometime, just to make my self be productive, I just turn those internet devices off. Including cellphone, broadband modem, and all music :-). Not so nice, but I need it.
Unfortunately, who dare to say can turn those device off for so long. We may need it just for a while. Then get back to those noise, again, and again :-)
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