Harvard Slack
Say goodbye to annoying Skype, Slack, Messenger, Telegram and other invasive app notifications and get back to work!
Warner Vincent Slack, M.D. Was a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a member of the Division of Clinical Informatics, Department of Medicine, and Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. For over 50 years, Dr. Slack has conducted pioneering research on the use of computers in the medical world. The following four strategies can help you overcome the curse of knowledge, says Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker.
Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It’s faster, better organized, and more secure than email. Now whenever we post news on iam.harvard.edu the same message will post immedately cross-post to the HUIT Slack instance. See all our past news (including Sprint reports) here: https://iam.harvard.edu/news.
Distraction: from the Latin 'distractio', derives from 'distrahĕre' that means to separate.Whatever is distracting our attention from our workflow. One of the many gift of Technology are dozens of new ways to 'capture' our attention. Perhaps it is better to say: disperse attention. Say stop to distractions with Hyperfocus!
A Counter available in the task bar reports the number of blocked notifications.
Being distracted makes us unhappy and overwhelmed by many other distractions all day long.
People spend 46.9% of their waking hours moving their focus on something far from their main task. This mind-wandering makes them unhappy as a study by Harvard University has discovered.
Nope, Hyperfocus does not record any personal data. Keeping your private data safe is our top priority.
Yes! You can use “plus” button in order to add a app you’d like to block.
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