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The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation — Sam Anderson

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May 19, 2009

Best magazine essay I’ve read in the last year. No jokes about skimming: read it.

Over the last several years, the problem of attention has migrated right into the center of our cultural attention.

via The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation — New York Magazine.

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