Death of the remotest illusion that I had anything useful to say.

Attention and sex     an essay on  Scott Berkun's blog has a Pirsig quote that I fully agree with "The truth knocks on the door and we say, “Go away. I’m looking for the truth”.  He likens this an "American tourist in Europe racing from site to site with barely a moment to take a picture or talk to someone not on their tour bus, we’re trapped in a quantity mentality, despite our quality based desires." ( Not just Americans . Go watch the people at the Grand Canyon  I swear more time is spend milling around the  gift shop than the attention paid to our most famous hole in the ground)

There's nothing radical in the idea that constant interuptions or  project switching ( something I'm trying harder to not be the cause of but...) for most people leads to  several tasks being performed poorly.What's changed is that we don't notice as much when  we're the ones interupting ourselves.   That's where the radical idea appears

 "Reclaiming attention starts with a leap of faith in believing the following sentence: you do not need more than what you have. "
 
 So  how much Willy is in us?  ( and yeah if you're a British schoolboy you can laugh, the rest of you pipe down)  
Add your own meaning to the character of Loman  ,or take your pick from  whether  his "pursuit" of a goal was a societal failing or his  fundamental failure to understand the desirability of setting a goal without checking to see that he had the resources and capacity to achieve it.    Nearly all my interuptions are  restatements of what's already been said,  nearly all the interuptions I cause are  restatements of what's already been said that  result from mine,  i.e  breaks my chain of thought,  so I go off and repeat the same damn thing.  

Damn it's really too long to wait for the new year to make that a resolution to stop.