In the first decade of the 2000s, speakers celebrated when listeners emailed, blogged, IMed, and tweeted reactions during their talks because they were so good. In the second decade, speakers will celebrate that no one tweets, IMs, blogs, or emails during their talks—because they are so good.

re: communication, technology, time

Andy:

In a world in which entire industries bet their businesses on gaining access to our attention, which value leads to better personal success: hard work or the ability to control attention?

A person who works six hours a day but with total focus has an enormous advantage over a 12-hour-per-day workaholic who’s “multi-tasking” all day, answering every phone call, constantly checking Facebook and Twitter, and indulging every interruption.