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The internet makes it hard to concentrate. Good. Distraction sparks innovation & creativity

August 31 2011, 1:03pm | Comments
Link Off-putting behaviour: On Writing and Procrastination
When I began writing, distractions were all low-tech. I had to worry about typewriter ribbons and correction fluid, for God's sake. There was no possibility of spending an apparently productive…

July 8 2011, 1:52am | Comments
Link How to survive the age of distraction
The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the…

June 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Link When the Meganovel Shrank
It seems significant, somehow, that Infinite Jest—the big buzzy signature meganovel of the nineties—was set at the end of the aughts. Most of the book’s action appears to take place…

January 8 2010, 6:21am | Comments

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