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"The point, however, is that as a consequence of noticing when our mind has wandered and then replacing our attention on the breath 10,00 or 100,000 times, we are subtly strengthen…

The science of anti-craving: http://focusr.co

For a way to use tech to actually increase your focus: http://focusr.co

There's also a Chrome extension for Focusr: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focusr/fgdcnfgmneb... This is especially useful because it prevents downward spirals from happ…

Employers have more information about salaries than employees. This information asymmetry can be problematic for employees who aren't savy enough (or have the time enough..) to fin…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

Mindfulness for your work: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focusr/fgdcnfgmneb... Instead of focusing on your (i.e.) your breath, you can practice bringing your focus back…

This is beyond cool. Are there any known side-effects to the sensor?

Mindfulness for your work: http://focusr.co/ (i.e., instead of being mindful to your breath or some aspect of your environment, you can practice mindfulness by bringing your attent…

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child. That is partially why I created this webapp: http://focusr.co/ . It helps you focus on one thing at a time, which can be hard enough for peopl…

A tool to help combat distractions like Twitter* and focus on one thing at a time: http://focusr.co . *Although I'm pleased with Twitter's self-awareness here, and I'm not saying t…

Shallows is a great book about this and "what the internet does to our brains". This chrome extension is supposed to combat the internet's unquestionable ability to mess with our w…

There seems to be a booming market for Slack integrations lately. This is great because Slack just = text, and so building prototypes can be fairly easy. Our product ( http://focus…

Haha, yes. There's this great book called "The Shallows" that talks about how originally people thought the web would increase our depth of learning with deep links to any concept …

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A useful tool to fight against the modern distraction epidemic: http://focusr.co

"Does anybody else have this problem? How do you deal with it?" Yes -- it's human nature. All you can do is focus on one thing at a time. If you are focused on what's important, th…

How fast do you ship products and/or deliverables to the world and to your bosses?

From the article: "When I look at more senior developers I notice...[they] take multiple short breaks throughout the day and between those breaks they tend to be very focused on th…