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stoweboyd:

Jolie O’Dell cites another study showing the obvious: that tuning into the world outside the piecework on your desk takes time. It you add up all the time that we spend reading things, communicating with people we known, and looking at websites, and then multiply it by the dollars per hour we…

Great commentary at this post from Stowe Boyd, which includes, ‘If your job can be performed by a soulless automaton, then your business should buy one and turn it on. You are in your job because you are a human being’ and ‘We are learning machines, and otherwise not machine-like at all. We are designed to be constantly learning, as much as possible, and a great deal of our social interaction is based around that dimension.’