January 2012
listening to "Human Rocket - Devo" →
blip.fm
i am a human rockettttt
“All we notice is that the distinctions that used to guide and steady us — between Sunday and Monday, public and private, here and there — are gone.”
—The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
“Even Intel (of all companies) experimented in 2007 with conferring four uninterrupted hours of quiet time every Tuesday morning on 300 engineers and managers. (The average office worker today, researchers have found, enjoys no more than three minutes at a time at his or her desk without interruption.) During this period the workers were not allowed to use the phone or send e-mail, but simply had the chance to clear their heads and to hear themselves think. A majority of Intel’s trial group recommended that the policy be extended to others.”
—The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
