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Some Distraction For You

Posted on 28 April, 2018

by Ton Zijlstra

Nir Eyal, of the Nir and Far blog, on dealing with distractions.

Posted in Effectiveness, networked agency | Tagged distraction, psychology

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Blog Interdependent Thoughts maintained since 2002 by Ton Zijlstra.
European citizen in a networked world. Based in the Netherlands, living in Europe, working globally. There are no Others. There is just me and many of you.

I write about how our digital and networked world changes how we work, learn, decide and organize. I explore the tools and strategies that help us navigate the networked world. I am passionate about increasing people's ability to act (knowledge), and their ability to change (learning). Key-words: open data, open government, fablabs, making, complexity, networked agency, networked learning, ethics by design.

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On this day…

There are 5 posts found on this site published on February 4

February 4, 2019
- Self Serendipity The ‘on this day in earlier years‘ plugin I recently installed on this blog is already proving to be useful in the way I hoped: creating somewhat coincidental feedback loops to my earlier blogposts, self serendipity. Last week I had lunch with Lilia and Robert, and 15 years ago today another lunch with Lilia prompted […]
February 4, 2018
- My The Things Gateway Sees Measure Your City Sensors After I activated my Lorawan gateway this afternoon, it is now clear it works! In my part of town a few sensors for the Measure Your City network have been installed (one in my garden but currently offline after a storm knocked it out of the tree). Those sensors are now picked up by my […]
- My The Things Network Gateway Activated After receiving the hardware for The Things Network, I now activated the gateway. I had first planned to run up a Cat6 to the top floor but I couldn’t successfully get the cable through the empty conduit that was available for that. Deciding not to wait until I get a cable through the conduit, I […]
February 4, 2007
- Learning Drupal Drupal is a good and versatile open CMS, that enjoys a large community of developers and enthusiasts. Elmine and I are currently learning how to adapt and administer Drupal. This because Drupal will be the new basis for my corporate web presence, as well as the community platform for one of Elmine’s clients. We are […]
February 4, 2004
- Lurking and Social Networks While having lunch with Lilia (who gave a great sketch of how our conversation developed) we talked about her new topic of interest, lurking. Lurking Lurking, although the word seems to imply a negative connotation, has usefull aspects nonetheless. It is a way of determining rules of behaviour for new comers to a group. The […]

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