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March 2008

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Why we’re powerless to resist grazing on endless web data

Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal writes that recent research shows that a brain rewards itself with a squirt of natural opiates when it comes across new information that requires interpretation. That’s why, he concludes, people stay on the Web for long periods of time.

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—Why we’re powerless to resist grazing on endless web data - Boing Boing
Mar 13, 2008
Mar 13, 2008
Mar 12, 2008
“Luftmenschen”.
Literally “air people”, Luftmenschen are people who deal in “air” — in the non-tangible: ideas, thoughts, dreams. […] The Luftmensch knows something the rest of us don’t: that the most useless thing you do is the most important. That is, the things we do with no final purpose in mind, solely for the enjoyment of doing them, are the things that make us human — that make us Menschen. (A Mensch is a genuine, authentic person.)”
—There’s More to Productivity Than Time Management - Lifehack.org
Mar 12, 2008
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