Comments on: Alone and Offline http://brianburridge.com/2006/11/14/alone-and-offline/ Brian is an entrepreneur developer with over 15 years experience in building web applications. He has founded several web sites including CommendableKids.com, PeepNote.com and WeAreTampaBay.com through his startup Agile Nomads. He is also a partner and Sr. Rails Dev at Gauged2. Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:07:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven Pothoven http://brianburridge.com/2006/11/14/alone-and-offline/#comment-474 Steven Pothoven Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:25:00 +0000 http://www.brianburridge.com/2006/11/14/alone-and-offline/#comment-474 I agree. It's hard to get much accomplished since every time you're about to "get into the groove" you get distracted. And it keeps getting worse with things like Blackberries and cell phones with IM so that you're no longer just distracted while in front of your computer, but even in the evening at home with your family. Here's another article which gives some imperial data to the amount of time lost by online distractions: <a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_2_33/ai_n13470538" rel="nofollow"> Falling behind: has dependence on tech made us less productive?</a> - Entrepreneur, Feb, 2005, by Mark Henricks I agree. It’s hard to get much accomplished since every time you’re about to “get into the groove” you get distracted. And it keeps getting worse with things like Blackberries and cell phones with IM so that you’re no longer just distracted while in front of your computer, but even in the evening at home with your family.

Here’s another article which gives some imperial data to the amount of time lost by online distractions:

Falling behind: has dependence on tech made us less productive? – Entrepreneur, Feb, 2005, by Mark Henricks

]]> By: David http://brianburridge.com/2006/11/14/alone-and-offline/#comment-473 David Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:56:43 +0000 http://www.brianburridge.com/2006/11/14/alone-and-offline/#comment-473 If you ever get a chance, you should check out Andy Hunt's talk on Wetware: http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/show_session_view.jsp?sessionId=3265&showId=70 If you ever get a chance, you should check out Andy Hunt’s talk on Wetware:

http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/show_session_view.jsp?sessionId=3265&showId=70

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