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PTPL 211 · Content Farms Have Found My Niche, But the Humans Are Still Winning

Plain Text Slop Soup, Anyone?

I was initially excited to discover a new plain text productivity site this week, with sections on open format apps and tips for plain text workflows. Hooray! I thought. Another resource to add to my Blogroll!

But a few seconds in, things began to feel off.

It didn’t take long to realise that I was looking at one of the internet’s newest claims to shame, the…

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AI is finally delivering productivity — for remote employees

The productivity gains from AI are so great, companies can lay off thousands of employees and still get the same amount of work done — right? Or maybe it’s the opposite: despite all the hype, any supposed AI productivity boom is a mirage, causing employees, even developers, to experience heavier workloads.

At the moment, the jury’s still out on whether AI use boosts or busts productivity across…

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Our attention spans are one-third what they were in 2004

The average human attention span shrank by roughly two-thirds between 2004 and the mid-2010s, with the steepest drop around 2012. That's from UC Irvine researcher Gloria Mark, and it anchors a New York Times op-ed by Cal Newport — Georgetown CS professor and author of _Deep Work_ — arguing that collective cognitive capacity is declining in ways data can now measure. — Read the rest

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