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Finite Attention Span

Personal blog · finiteattentionspan.wordpress.comwritingcareerscience

Finite Attention Span is a personal blog at finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com about writing, career and science. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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2009–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2009

"Communication is too often taken for granted when it should be taken to pieces." - J. Fiske.

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  1. Submitted When giving presentations, the only rule that matters is the rule of attention as a story · 3 points

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  2. Submitted Why experts are morons: a recipe for academic success as a story · 2 points

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  3. Submitted Getting out alive as a story · 1 points

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