Technologies · draft 15 of 95, not in the published book · outline v1.0.0, 2018, frozen · 184 words · the 2018 file · read and review
Dopamine
In 2018 this was an outline: a title and "Topics to cover and ideas". It was never in the published book, and it is shown exactly as it was left. The second edition fills it from the articles the map names.
Do you know what Dopamine is? Do you know why mobile phone notifications are so addictive?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine
Topics to cover and ideas
- detox from your phone
- detox from notifications
- stop notifications
- related to the Zone and Deep work concepts
- Your ability to perform uninterrupted and focused work is one of your most important skills and a massive competitive advantage. This is how the best code is produced
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you are addicted to your phone. Mobile phones 'attention grabbing activities' are the new smoking (they affect the brain)
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"why do you have the huge to check your phone when you hear an interruption". it is like a thread has started in your brain that wont complete until you check it.
- the problem is that these dopamine interruptions make you lose context (and lose the 'zone')
No newsroom article answers it yet. The map row.