Comment burp on “Continuous Partial attention and Dunbar’s Number”
Jul 10th 2007NiaLLLarkinUncategorized & dunbarsnumber & flow
Over at eirepreneur.com I dropped what started as a short comment but got carried away. James then higlighted the comment by republishing it in full as a post in its own right. So I thought should have a record of it on my own blog too. If you’re a regular reader of eirepreneur my apologies for the comment burp. Please excuse…
In response to my post about Continuous Partial Attention and Flow Niall Larkin posts another one of those comments that’s just too good to leave drifting downstream -
“Maybe these guys are getting into a tangle ‘cos they are just mixing up their ideas and flow streams. Off the top of my head, Stowe Boyd was talking about social flow or the flow of information through ambient channels in social groups. While Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi was talking about the sensation of flow that we experience internally when focused and tuned into and deeply engaged in a specific task that challenges us. And Marc Andreesen is talking about the other side of Linda’s ‘continuous partial attention’ coin by describing ‘continuous partial interruption’…. more