{"id":535363,"date":"2010-04-20T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2281-i-really-feel-like-that-combination-of-little"},"modified":"2010-04-20T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T15:27:00","slug":"quote-i-really-feel-like-that-combination-of-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535363","title":{"rendered":"QUOTE: I really feel like that combination of little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really feel like that combination of little, easy motor skills and clicking combined with feeling a little less bored for a minute is completely addictive to people. When the main way we communicate with each other is through all these things \u2014 and I&#8217;m not saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t use Facebook, don&#8217;t use Twitter.&#8221; What I am saying is, if you&#8217;re not mindful about the amount of your attention that goes to thinking about and consuming those things, you&#8217;re not going to be making good stuff, either for that medium or elsewhere. That\u2019s what I got kind of hung up on, when I finally realized that all I was doing was eating and producing potato chips all day long.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2010\/03\/doing-less-stuff-better-seeing-your-face-in-the-marble-and-making-immigrants-cry-colin-marshall-talk.html\">Merlin Mann<\/a> on becoming overwhelmed by useless online information<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=k4sQQva3Z3E:vBUPjLY9ZqY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=k4sQQva3Z3E:vBUPjLY9ZqY:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really feel like that combination of little, easy motor skills and clicking combined with feeling a little less bored for a minute is completely addictive to people. When the main way we communicate with each other is through all these things \u2014 and I&#8217;m not saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t use Facebook, don&#8217;t use Twitter.&#8221; What I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}