<story><title>The Screenless Office</title><url>http://screenl.es/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>On the site, under &amp;#x27;3. Slow Computing&amp;#x27;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Another aspect of contemporary screen-based culture is the constant psychic conflict often referred to as the &amp;quot;Attention Economy&amp;quot;. In just trying to watch one youtube video, a typical user is confronted with dozens of other appeals to focus somewhere else: comments, ratings, related videos, advertisements, video responses, etc. Because screen-based interaction is premised on temporal immediacy, we are, as users forced into a state of hyper-attention where we must constantly fight against the, largely commercial, attempts to make us look at something else. When we remove the screen (and by necessity, simplify the interface) we introduce a new form of temporality, where the speed of interaction might more accurately reflect our ability to percieve and understand information.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I think this is the important part of the whole idea. 
On the other hand, and, in my opinion, you can achieve a similar experience as:&lt;p&gt;1. use a laptop and&amp;#x2F;or desktop&lt;p&gt;2. disable your notification system on your desktop&lt;p&gt;3. browse the web with an extremely simple browser, like w3m&lt;p&gt;4. one display&lt;p&gt;5. full-screen mode&lt;p&gt;6. don&amp;#x27;t scroll gradually; read from top to bottom and use pgup&amp;#x2F;pgdown&lt;p&gt;I found this the best way to focus on content and work, however, most workplaces won&amp;#x27;t tolerate not responding to instant messages and notifications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keithpeter</author><text>While upgrading my Slackware current installation on an old recycled laptop, I decided to install Alien Bob&amp;#x27;s KDE5 package set for lutz (works well on a humble core-duo with 2Gb RAM). The readme advises installing outside of X, so I was sitting at a console for 45 mins while the packages downloaded and installed. Bored, I found myself hitting Ctrl-Alt-2 and Ctrl-Alt-3 to run w3m and mpg123 in different virtual ttys. Reading and Music. Around 60% of my normal laptop use cases covered there and then.&lt;p&gt;Posting this on Debian command line with the evilwm and Firefox. No notifications, quiet, minimal.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Screenless Office</title><url>http://screenl.es/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>On the site, under &amp;#x27;3. Slow Computing&amp;#x27;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Another aspect of contemporary screen-based culture is the constant psychic conflict often referred to as the &amp;quot;Attention Economy&amp;quot;. In just trying to watch one youtube video, a typical user is confronted with dozens of other appeals to focus somewhere else: comments, ratings, related videos, advertisements, video responses, etc. Because screen-based interaction is premised on temporal immediacy, we are, as users forced into a state of hyper-attention where we must constantly fight against the, largely commercial, attempts to make us look at something else. When we remove the screen (and by necessity, simplify the interface) we introduce a new form of temporality, where the speed of interaction might more accurately reflect our ability to percieve and understand information.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I think this is the important part of the whole idea. 
On the other hand, and, in my opinion, you can achieve a similar experience as:&lt;p&gt;1. use a laptop and&amp;#x2F;or desktop&lt;p&gt;2. disable your notification system on your desktop&lt;p&gt;3. browse the web with an extremely simple browser, like w3m&lt;p&gt;4. one display&lt;p&gt;5. full-screen mode&lt;p&gt;6. don&amp;#x27;t scroll gradually; read from top to bottom and use pgup&amp;#x2F;pgdown&lt;p&gt;I found this the best way to focus on content and work, however, most workplaces won&amp;#x27;t tolerate not responding to instant messages and notifications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d4nt</author><text>&amp;gt; most workplaces won&amp;#x27;t tolerate not responding to instant messages and notifications.&lt;p&gt;This. IM conversations take longer than in person ones (or video chats), have a higher rate of misunderstandings, cannot be flagged for follow up or bookmarked for reference, and the red blobs contribute to higher stress levels. It adds nothing to productivity, IMO. Yet being ‘present’ on slack is the new being at your desk before the boss.</text></comment>