DND, pls! Why technology and social media f*ck up our work and relationships Philippe Creytens Cloud Conference - May 27, 2014 http://goo.gl/SbGd2o (Do Not Disturb, please)
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DND, pls!
Why technology and social media f*ck up our work and relationships
Philippe CreytensCloud Conference - May 27, 2014
http://goo.gl/SbGd2o
(Do Not Disturb, please)
I’m preaching to the choir...
We are moving (too?) slowly towards the knowledge society with its knowledge workers.
Uh? Knowledge workers?
“What differentiates knowledge work from other forms of work is its primary task of ‘non-routine’ problem solving that requires a combination of convergent, divergent, and creative thinking.”
Wikipedia
Dangers of “distractions”
We become less creative and screw up relationships!
DND, pls
Do not disturb, pleaaaaase…. and find balance (again)
Use your smartphone, smartly
Question: How many times do people check their smartphones?
A - Less than 10 times a day
B - Less than 50 times a day
C - More than 50 times a day
Use your smartphone, smartly
Question: How many times do people check their smartphones?
A - Less than 10 times a day
B - Less than 50 times a day
C - More than 50 times a day
150
http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/smartphone-users-check-their-phones-an-average-of-150-times-a-day-86984.html
Smartphone, #1 source of distractionsSurf: 25 min/day
Social media: 17 min/day
Games: 13 min/day
Music: 16 min/day
Calls: 12 min/day
54% uses as alarm clock
46% replace wrist watch
40% replaces camera
6% replaces book and TV
source: O2
Our friends Darwin and Pavlov
Dealing with distractions is in our genes
Our friends Darwin and Pavlov
Conditioned by distractions, chemicals at work...
Fear of Missing Out, phantom vibrations, ADHD behavior and narcissism on social media
The office environment
Open plan offices (noisy colleagues) and M&M’s (meetings & managers)
Other work related distractions
and exploding mailboxes*, not literally
* Personal favorite
What will we lose?
Creativity
“We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.”
John Cleese
http://youtu.be/kH8uYDJlwog
Aha!-Erlebnis
Space and time for deep thoughts
Flow (and happiness)
High
HighLow
Challenges and
complexity
Individual skills
Panic Anxiety Concerns
FLOW
Boredom
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Our memory
Is memory like a muscle that needs to be trained?
Multitasking, a myth
Multitasking is a myth
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
M (write first number) u (write second number)...
1 ...2...
Time?
What we will lose on a more personal level...
Social contacts
The (lost) art of conversation
Work/life balance
BMW bans email after 18h and during weekends
The solution… partly
On the seventh day...
Start small, one day a week...
More tips to come in my upcoming book...
Philippe Creytens
google.com/+PhilippeCreytens
@pcreytens
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