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May18
Laughing at Myself
NextStage: Predictive Intelligence, Persuasion Engineering, Interactive Analytics and Behavioral Metrics I received an email from a frequent reader of this blog about my Joseph Carrabis Joins Society for New Communications Research as Senior Research Fellow and Advisory Board Member post. Their comment starts with: "Is it arrogant to produce a press releasing announcing your own achievement. Shouldn't it be 'NextStage Evolution announces Joseph Carrabis ...' Hell, if I recall correctly, I didn't even announce I was getting married; my wife's parents had that honor on the announcement cards we bought."

I talked with the fellow on the phone and we had a good chat, although I remained a little lost about his email.

Then, for a totally different reason, I looked at the post again and laughed.

 

The post reads "Joseph Carrabis announces that he has been named..."

Yep, I laughed and am laughing now.

I'm not sure I'll go along with "arrogant" and do agree that there's more of a message there than simply announcing a new appointment. Once again the confluence of events is surprising me. NextStage is doing some research on people's increasing desire to multi-task and how the quality of individual events is decreasing due to the diminished cognitive resources available for each task.

Or, more succinctly, "Do too many things at once and you start making mistakes."

So, please forgive me. I'll go fix that post now, and thanks to the attentiveness of that reader.

Please contact NextStage for information regarding presentations and trainings on how to focus your attention so you won't make mistakes.


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Frequent reader announces frequent reader approves the revised announcement. And I look forward to the aforementioned presentation.

Hi Joseph,
Linda Stone makes a useful distinction between multitasking and continuous partial attention... I think you'd enjoy her work. LindaStone.net, unless I misremember.
Best,
Brad Berens

» Responding to Frequent Reader and Brad, part 1 from BizMediaScience
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