Another press release regarding Nota Bene, this one from my former school, mainly talking about the publication related to my work in it. I'm dodging saying "this one is about me" because I'm all modest and whatnot.
http://valenciacc.edu/news/news_detail.cfm?ArticleID=285
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Friday, October 09, 2009
Learning to be quiet...
I'm learning to be quiet right now. It's harder than it sounds...
We are living in an increasingly techno-centric society, and are finding our attention divided into smaller, and smaller portions, with smaller and smaller amounts of time to devote to each portion. Workplaces are expecting higher and higher output while providing fewer and fewer opportunities for advancement, and raises.
Humanity is moving toward the brink of a system-wide nervous breakdown.
What are you doing to counteract it?
I'm learning to be quiet right now. It's harder than it sounds...
Especially when my cellphone keeps going off, and my computer is beeping at me, and the TV screens are telling me what to buy and watch and listen to and live for, and the radio is blaring at me. Our incredibly high concentration of communication is creating people who are unable to communicate, and we are, in essence, backsliding into the dark ages again.
What are you doing to counteract it?
I'm learning to be quiet right now. It's harder than it sounds...
"Multitasking" is one of the most egregiously terrible myths that has been perpetuated on society, and it is high time that people were aware that it is, in fact, impossible to multi-task. We simply rob from the quality of execution of one task with our poor, half-hearted efforts toward another. We're reducing our over all quality while doing more simultaneously. The entirety of the quality of work is reduced further as this myth continues to be spread as a buzzword throughout society, the job market, and the home life.
What are you doing to counteract it?
I'm learning to be quiet right now. It's harder than it sounds...
It involves taking the time to not have pressing tasks forcing one into slathering one's effort thinly across too large a canvas. It requires a devotion to being the best of what you are. It assumes a faith that you can thrive in the silence, and that your small inner voice, quieted by being daily shouted down by the adrenaline and energy drinks coursing through your veins, will learn to speak again.
What are you going to do about it?
I'm learning to be quiet right now. It's harder than it sounds.
We are living in an increasingly techno-centric society, and are finding our attention divided into smaller, and smaller portions, with smaller and smaller amounts of time to devote to each portion. Workplaces are expecting higher and higher output while providing fewer and fewer opportunities for advancement, and raises.
Humanity is moving toward the brink of a system-wide nervous breakdown.
What are you doing to counteract it?
I'm learning to be quiet right now. It's harder than it sounds...
Especially when my cellphone keeps going off, and my computer is beeping at me, and the TV screens are telling me what to buy and watch and listen to and live for, and the radio is blaring at me. Our incredibly high concentration of communication is creating people who are unable to communicate, and we are, in essence, backsliding into the dark ages again.
What are you doing to counteract it?
I'm learning to be quiet right now. It's harder than it sounds...
"Multitasking" is one of the most egregiously terrible myths that has been perpetuated on society, and it is high time that people were aware that it is, in fact, impossible to multi-task. We simply rob from the quality of execution of one task with our poor, half-hearted efforts toward another. We're reducing our over all quality while doing more simultaneously. The entirety of the quality of work is reduced further as this myth continues to be spread as a buzzword throughout society, the job market, and the home life.
What are you doing to counteract it?
I'm learning to be quiet right now. It's harder than it sounds...
It involves taking the time to not have pressing tasks forcing one into slathering one's effort thinly across too large a canvas. It requires a devotion to being the best of what you are. It assumes a faith that you can thrive in the silence, and that your small inner voice, quieted by being daily shouted down by the adrenaline and energy drinks coursing through your veins, will learn to speak again.
What are you going to do about it?
I'm learning to be quiet right now. It's harder than it sounds.
Friday, October 02, 2009
The Link to the Press Release
Here's the Press Release for the 2009 edition of the Nota Bene Anthology:
http://www.ptk.org/news/pr/8906
There it is. I'm still jazzed.
http://www.ptk.org/news/pr/8906
There it is. I'm still jazzed.
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