Made Thing

More, on the Buttafuoco Point

Andy Ihnatko, on the importance of reclaiming your attention:

If you’re spending every waking moment distracting yourself…what are you distracting yourself from? What is your brain clamoring to tell you, if it were ever to get your full and complete attention? An experiment: The next time you have a little time to kill and you instinctively go to your phone to launch your email client or your Twitter app or the web browser, launch the Clock app instead. Set a countdown timer for the amount of time you were going to spend in any of those activities (or ten minutes, whichever is shorter).

The mindfulness meditation that I’ve been trying (and mostly failing) to practice argues essentially the same thing, only in different terms.