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...social world and give birth to this new type of American professional. This new breed - the intravidual - has multiple selves competing for attention within his/her own mind, just as, externally, she or he is bombarded by multiple stimuli simultaneously." Actually, you're probably reading this review while checking your email and listening to an NPR podcast, aren...
...life'? What are those? Work is the central aspect of our lives. We are lucky that it is fulfilling work - work that we will probably continue to do until we are no longer capable - but it is, unlike that of my parents, all-consuming work. There is always an email to answer, a paper or memo to read, and a lecture to give or receive. Success in today's professional world doesn't mean retiring at fifty to play golf in Florida, it means working more and more hours as you move up a towering ladder of economic opportunity...
...task at a time. It turns out that when researchers studied engineers working in the early 1990s (before the BlackBerry era but after the advent of computers in their profession), the average time they spent focusing on a given task was about six seconds. They didn't have email to check, but they did have lots of other multitasking possibilities. Why only six seconds? Maybe this time limit is inherent to the nature of knowledge work. Thinking is, perhaps, like staring at a bright light. It's too intense, and you have to look away every so often...
...appears to have been one of the many who were committed not because they were insane, but because they were inconvenient," O'Connor wrote in an email to Maisel. Last August, O'Connor claimed Winterburn's remains in their canister, which now sits in her study at home in Grant's Pass, Oregon. "We thought we would bury her on our 10 acres (4 hectares) of wooded land," she wrote. "But we have found we like having her in the house." Finally, Winterburn has received in death the warm welcome her family denied her in life...
...logs, fans bombarded segment host Mo Rocca's blog with protests ("The person who wants the new yule log is a f**king loser and an communist. He should get fired from his job. Merry Christmas," one wrote). Sean Compton, WGN's Senior Vice President for Programming Entertainment, received email complaints as well. "I'm getting attacked," he says. "I had 10 emails this morning, and I don't know how they're getting my address." Compton, who came to WGN from radio, originally came up with the idea after stumbling across the radio plays on the Internet one Christmas...