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注意力是你最稀缺的资源
Attention is your scarcest resource
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黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
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Ben Kuhn 的这篇文章指出注意力才是人最稀缺的资源，而非时间：频繁切换任务、被打断和同时承担多重角色会大量消耗注意力。作者结合自身经历谈到写代码与管理兼顾的困难，认为管理者应专注管理、避免分心于个人技术工作。
为什么经久不衰：它把“注意力稀缺”这一常被忽视的约束讲得透彻而实用，在信息干扰越来越多的今天依然切中要害。
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应用中不可关闭的干扰性功能是对用户注意力的不尊重，应形成反干扰的行业承诺。
虽然不是文章主题，但这个标题让我希望有个“我们不会故意分散你的注意力，并提供减少干扰的选项”的应用/网站承诺徽章。比如 Discourse 论坛的“成就”系统就在分散注意力：它复用了新消息的通知机制，我每次都得点进去看是不是真有新消息，结果只是个愚蠢的成就徽章，时间和心神都被浪费了。把这种事乘以几十上百个应用和网站，那些无法关闭的功能显然是对用户不负责任、不尊重的。设计这种干扰的人是坏人的观念应该传播开来。
greggman3查看英文原文
I know this isn't the directly the topic of the article but the title "attention is your scarcest resource" reminds me that I wish there was some pledge/badge of "we will not intentionally distract you and provide options to reduce distractions" pledge for apps and websites. It drives me nuts for example that discourse has "achievements" to distract you. Every discourse forum I join for customer service is yet another 15 distracting achievements begging for my attention. It's not that I care about the achievements, it's that it's the same notification system that I got a new message so I'm compelled to go see if the highlight is a new message and when it turns out it's not, it's a dumb achievement badge then my time has been wasted and my mind has been distracted. Multiply this by 50 apps to 100 apps/sites etc and it's clear that features as such that can't be turned off are irresponsible toward and disrespectful of users. That idea that you're a bad person if you design and create such distractions needs to spread.
兼职写代码的经理很难做好管理，小团队干脆不要设经理。
这篇博客最关键的点其实被放在了结尾：既要写代码又要当好工程经理是非常困难的。与其争论各种折中技巧，不如全职做管理。据我的经验，6 人以上才能让经理满负荷，10 人左右最理想；再多人就无法均匀投入每个人了。对于不到 6 人的小团队，我的答案是不设经理，只设技术负责人，相信 1-5 人的小组能自己解决内部问题。
burlesona查看英文原文
I think the most salient point of this blog is pretty much buried as the closing thought. It’s pretty hard to be a good engineering manager when you also have programming responsibilities (IC work). Sure, you can debate about what the different hacks are to try and work around this and do a good job in spite of the difficulty, but it’s a lot easier to just go full-time managing. In my experience it takes six or more people to fully occupy a manager. Ten seems to be about perfect. You can go higher than that (and many do) but at a certain point you’re not evenly investing in all your people anymore, you’re mostly focusing on a few at a time. Obviously the hardest part of this is if you don’t have 6+ people to manage. My answer to very small teams is not to have a manager at all, just have a technical lead and trust that a group of 1-5 people can work out their own crap.
未来若能通过植入体扩展工作记忆，注意力的差距将造成人与人之间的根本分化。
我现在认为奇点最可能的情形是有人发明出增强短期记忆的植入体。我们会发现注意力主要由工作记忆主导，能同时处理两倍信息的人与做不到的人在运作方式上有本质区别；超过 5 倍后，双方可能连沟通都困难，更别说竞争了。
hinkley查看英文原文
My most plausible scenario for the Singularity now is someone figuring out how to augment short term memory with implants. I think we are going to find that attention is dominated by working set memory, and people who can juggle even twice as much stuff are going to operate fundamentally differently than those who can’t afford or won’t have the surgery. And past 5x it may become difficult to even communicate, much less compete.
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