The information (overload) era
It’s taken a while for the mainstream media to catch on, but they’re finally giving some attention to the “modern workplace” overloading our senses with way too much information. While the writer focuses on Attention Deficit Trait (gotta bank on its more popular cousin, ADD) as an effect of an increasingly demanding work environment, it’s clear to me that it has more to do with normal, everyday people who were never meant to merge their jobs with the information superhighway. While regular folks might have a hard time being productive in this kind of situation, the writer ignores us nerds afflicted by what’s been coined by at least one individual as NADD (Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder). However, Rand doesn’t acknowledge the fact that, yes, there are persons that are not particularly suited for this kind of environment that decide to dive head-on into it and end up tagged as ADTers. Or even selective NADDers (I, for example, can’t listen to music I really like while doing other things, or the music takes priority above everything else). All in all, it pays to know your limits. Or at least have your boss know that yes, you can browse 7 web pages, install patches on a server, fix a user’s software installation and write an e-mail to a provider, all this while talking on the phone to said user and writing down random bits and pieces of information.
nashira wrote:
I recently discovered I’ve been developing some superficial case of dislexia, and it’s due to excessive typing and reading on the screen of my laptop. That’s my stupid diagnose, anyway. And also, I have the opposite of NADD, when I’m concentrating on my work or on some useless webpage (not this one) (ok, this one too) I get autist. Then again, I lose concentration at the end of a parragraph if I find brackets in it, even when I’m writing and I’m the one using the brackets. I guess I don’t fit in those cool acronyms, NADD. NERD. Oh, well.
Anyway, it’s funny when some author tries to define “this generation” or “these times”.
Posted 01 Apr 2005 at 1:10 am ¶
chronic procrastinator wrote:
How pretentious of you to call yourself nerd, oh and that NADS syndrome sounds fancy!
See you later little man[]
Posted 07 Apr 2005 at 3:13 pm ¶
alvarete wrote:
You can’t call yourself a nerd. You are one, or you aren’t. I, for one, consider myself 100% geek. I mean, I don’t even see the code anymore… All I see is blonde, brunette…
(Is it still fashionable to quote The Matrix?)
Posted 07 Apr 2005 at 4:42 pm ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:
Could it ever be passé to quote a classic? I find myself continuously saying “I dont play well with others” at work. The only thing wrong with movie quoting is that you start an avalanche of people trying to prove who knows the most scripture (if you will).
You and I both know that battle has no winner. And so I leave you with….
“Hey, whats that on your face?” - person in question gets a shovelfull of dirt immediately after. From Army of Darkness.
F it.
Posted 22 Apr 2005 at 2:14 am ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:
Btw, I forgot. Most ppl love to say they have some sort of disorder. I label it all “personality and character”. At some point in the 90’s it became fashionable to be disfuctional and ever since, everybody wants to say they have/are ADD, OCD, Bypolar, Anorexic, Bulemic, depressive, a hoarder, etc etc etc.
“Yak Yak Yak…..get a job”
from Hackers
F it
Posted 22 Apr 2005 at 2:18 am ¶
alvarete wrote:
And whoever resorts to IMDB’s quote section loses…
“Good, bad… I’m the one with the gun.”
Posted 25 Apr 2005 at 11:10 am ¶