(CNN again) What are you doing right now as you read this article? Ordering supplies for the office from your distribution warehouse? Monitoring a screen for production equipment performance? Getting an e-mail back to your colleagues in the Denver office? Carrying on Instant Message conversations with three co-workers? Writing up a report in Word for the meeting on Wednesday? Eating the lunch you never have time to leave the desk for? Opening and reading traditional mail? Filing an in-house memo to Tech Services because your browser is acting up? Making a list of the clients you're expected to reach by close-of-business today? Trying to resize the fonts in the company newsletter so it fits on one page?
Actually, I’m doing this commentary on the subject matter as it spins out from the Washington Post and CNN articles, Google-searching appropriate imagery, checking additional sources and keeping an eye on the word-count while hoping to maintain a certain amount of relevancy. Occasionally I am required to grab the squirt-gun from my chair-side table and nail the cat, to discourage it from walking across the dining-room table. What are you telling me, that everything firing off within my visual, auditory and mental parameters at one time has confused my focus? Actually, it’s been going on for decades, minus the headphones. In those supposedly quieter times, the information was so time-consuming to collect and aggregate, a commentator was lucky to get off a single piece a week.
Which is why we used to have office doors that actually closed.
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