Fundamental shift in my relationship with coffee: light to moderate doses have completely stopped feeling distracting.
Sharpens everything.
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Still get restless leg syndrome, though.
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I tend to think a lot of our pathologizing of coffe comes from frayed attention.
Increased dopamine gets messy in an undecided mind.
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yes, the relationship between attention and intention is ignored too often. Attention is incredibly important, but one must be aware of the way in which it is regulated and inclined by intention.
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This is the number one issue I saw with colleagues in a work environment with repetitive tasks, calling people and responding to emails.
They seemed completely incapable of maintaining intention in order to regulate attention, coupled with low capacity, led to 50% productivity.
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50% is a very rough guess, but based on other employees with the exact same amount of tasks, same/less time, and accurate metrics to measure basic task completion (call logs, email data, sale closes, etc).
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Considering when I wasn't undergoing major depression, I maintained 190% of KPIs in such a work environment, that seems about right.
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Yes indeed. And I should say, my note on low productivity isn't a criticism of those with low attentional capacity and unstable Int/Att balance, as I don't really give too many fucks about that measure of productivity. I'm more interested in wide scale well-being.
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Yeah, it's mostly a tell for how insanely unhealthy office work is.
Takes special training just to keep a normal level of efficiency.
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Yes. It's just a very short-sighted way of thinking about corporate-architecture, corporate cultures, etc.
There are several people who are starting to do some more interesting thinking on the topic....but we have a long way to go.
It's a huge discussion, so I'll stop there.
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