One of my more popular blog posts is “Cognitive drift” which touches on the concept regarding how ones mind tends to drift after a few moments. For the last 8 months I’ve tried to be more focused, a bit less scatter-brained.
Tag Archive: cognitive drift
Feb
25
Oct
13
Cold Turkey
As an experiment, I’m going to try and get all my news from a twitter feed for one week. So, what does that mean? It means: No market info from my WSJ subscription No info from e-mail subscriptions No RSS feeds I will ignore the dozen podcasts I listen to every week No radio…no sports talk …
Jun
10
Cognitive drift
Listening to the SuperFreakonomics audio book I heard a term today that was new to me – “cognitive drift”. The authors used the term to describe our tendency to lose focus on what we’re doing. For example, when we’re looking at a website that is taking too long to use. A person using a computer experiences …