quote &mdash; Noisy Deadlines https://noisydeadlines.net/tag:quote "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:40:46 +0000 https://i.snap.as/oLWMyXaX.png quote &mdash; Noisy Deadlines https://noisydeadlines.net/tag:quote Too many windows open and too much clutter https://noisydeadlines.net/too-many-windows-open-and-too-much-clutter?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[I started reading Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig and it is full of good stuff like this: "I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open. Too much clutter on the desktop. There is a metaphorical spinning rainbow wheel inside me. Disabling me. And if only I could find a way to switch off some of the frames, if only I could drag some of the clutter into the trash, then I would be fine. But which frame would I choose, when they all seem so essential? How can I stop my mind being overloaded when the world is overloaded? We can think about anything. And so it makes sense that we end up thinking about everything. We might have to, sometimes, be brave enough to switch the screens off in order to switch ourselves back on. To disconnect in order to reconnect." ― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet via @goodreads #books #quote #overload #reconnect Thoughts? a href="https://remark.as/p/noisydeadlines.net/too-many-windows-open-and-too-much-clutter"Discuss.../a if you have a Write.as account or Reply by email ------- By Noisy Deadlines Minimalist in progress, nerdy, introvert, skeptic. I don't leave without my e-reader. ]]> I started reading Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig and it is full of good stuff like this:

“I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open. Too much clutter on the desktop. There is a metaphorical spinning rainbow wheel inside me. Disabling me. And if only I could find a way to switch off some of the frames, if only I could drag some of the clutter into the trash, then I would be fine. But which frame would I choose, when they all seem so essential? How can I stop my mind being overloaded when the world is overloaded? We can think about anything. And so it makes sense that we end up thinking about everything. We might have to, sometimes, be brave enough to switch the screens off in order to switch ourselves back on. To disconnect in order to reconnect.” ― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

via @goodreads

#books #quote #overload #reconnect

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]]> https://noisydeadlines.net/too-many-windows-open-and-too-much-clutter Thu, 30 May 2019 01:08:50 +0000 The amount of snow is the same https://noisydeadlines.net/the-amount-of-snow-is-the-same?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[It's that time of the year (middle of winter in the northern hemisphere) when I start to hear lots and lots of people complaining about winter. They say: “It's too long, it's too cold, it's too much snow, it's horrible.” So here's a message to leave those negative feelings behind: “If you choose not to enjoy snow, you will have less joy in your life, but the same amount of snow.” So, let’s choose to enjoy! Winter view #winter #quote Thoughts? a href="https://remark.as/p/noisydeadlines.net/the-amount-of-snow-is-the-same"Discuss.../a if you have a Write.as account or Reply by email ------- By Noisy Deadlines Minimalist in progress, nerdy, introvert, skeptic. I don't leave without my e-reader. ]]> It's that time of the year (middle of winter in the northern hemisphere) when I start to hear lots and lots of people complaining about winter. They say: “It's too long, it's too cold, it's too much snow, it's horrible.”

So here's a message to leave those negative feelings behind:

“If you choose not to enjoy snow, you will have less joy in your life, but the same amount of snow.”

So, let’s choose to enjoy!

Winter view

#winter #quote

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]]> https://noisydeadlines.net/the-amount-of-snow-is-the-same Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:03:58 +0000 Wealth of information creates poverty of attention https://noisydeadlines.net/wealth-of-information-creates-poverty-of-attention?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[The other day I was watching this TED talk on "Mindfulness, Technology and Attention Activism" by Jay Vidyarthi and he mentions this quote from Herbert A. Simon back in the 60'/70's. Simon, a Nobel prize winner, was onto something here and I wonder what he would say about the world today... 🤔 "What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." --Simon, H. A. (1971) "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World" in: Martin Greenberger, Computers, Communication, and the Public Interest, Baltimore. MD: The Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 40–41. #attentionresistance #quote Thoughts? a href="https://remark.as/p/noisydeadlines.net/wealth-of-information-creates-poverty-of-attention"Discuss.../a if you have a Write.as account or Reply by email ------- By Noisy Deadlines Minimalist in progress, nerdy, introvert, skeptic. I don't leave without my e-reader. ]]> The other day I was watching this TED talk on “Mindfulness, Technology and Attention Activism” by Jay Vidyarthi and he mentions this quote from Herbert A. Simon back in the 60'/70's.

Simon, a Nobel prize winner, was onto something here and I wonder what he would say about the world today... 🤔

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” —Simon, H. A. (1971) “Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World” in: Martin Greenberger, Computers, Communication, and the Public Interest, Baltimore. MD: The Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 40–41.

#attentionresistance #quote

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