April 13th, 2005
On attention
One part of what everyone of us has to do is decide what and who to pay attention to. There is this world around us with things demanding or attracting our attention. Animated banner ads, instant messenger uh-oh-sounds, ringing phone, co-worker’s ringing phone, new-email-has-arrived icon, empty stomach, returning thoughts of important things to ponder about, firewall alert, post-it notes on your monitor, to do list items, interesting things you come across, new rss feed item in reader, real people knocking on your door et cetera…