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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
I wrote an article for them once, about attention overload. I obviously didn't learn anything from the experience, because in the opening sentences I said I had 45 tabs open my computer. Nowadays I have many, many more than that. ::)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 21, 2023, 06:19:58 pm ---I wrote an article for them once, about attention overload. I obviously didn't learn anything from the experience, because in the opening sentences I said I had 45 tabs open my computer. Nowadays I have many, many more than that. ::)
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:o
How on earth do you manage that many at one time?
Front-Ranger:
My thoughts too. It would drive me crazy. I have 11 open now, and have cut myself off.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 22, 2023, 10:36:10 am --- :o
How on earth do you manage that many at one time?
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Depends on what you mean by "manage." If you mean, how do you open a tab to a new article, say you're going to read it later, or maybe read a few paragraphs right away and plan to finish it later, then never look at it again, it's easy!
Many of them, of course, I do read. But unfortunately the internet has far more interesting reading material than I have time.
And I must not be the only one. Here's a post I wrote on Twitter in 2012 that has been retweeted 3,300 times.
"Like many writers, I have rituals. Before writing, I pour coffee, open the window by my desk, and attempt to read the entire internet."
This sounds self serving and I don't mean it that way, but sometimes I wonder if I'm interested in too many things.
Jeff Wrangler:
After you read something you still leave the tab open?
Why do you all have so many? Why do you need that many open at one time?
Right now I'm on my work laptop, and I have three open--including the one where I'm writing this.
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