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May 29th, 2019NYTimes privacy project
May 29th, 2019a new piece from a data scientist on sharing health data
For a Longer, Healthier Life, Share Your Data
Privacy protections are standing in the way of artificial-intelligence programs that could diagnose cancers and screen for genetic disorders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/health-care-privacy-hipaa.html
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May 28th, 2019Compelling argument against Slack
May 27th, 2019Stop Letting Modern Distractions Steal Your Attention
Making yourself inaccessible from time to time is essential to boosting your focus.
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This kind of task switching comes with a cost. It’s called attention residue, a term established by Sophie Leroy, a professor at the Bothell School of Business at the University of Washington. In a 2009 study, Dr. Leroy found that if people transition their attention away from an unfinished task, their subsequent task performance will suffer. For example, if you interrupt writing an email to reply to a text message, it will take time to refocus when you turn your attention back to finishing your email. That little bit of time of adjusting your focus — the residue — compounds throughout the day. As we fragment our attention, fatigue and stress increases, which negatively affects performance.
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At the very least, she said, start leaving your phone behind during certain periods of the day, and perhaps establishing no-phone zones in your house or workplace. Treat it as an experiment: Try things and see what makes you feel good, she said.
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