farkob's comments

There is something inherently wrong with this I think. This trend with knowledge, like as any commodity, getting cut down into smallest intelligible or consumable piece and delivered that way is not suitable for disciplines like math. Sure twitter is good for memes, one liners, little nuggets of knowledge or headlines, and sometimes even tweet chains but math requires more context, more rigor, more attention by the consumer. Which is the opposite of Twitter.

Sure it can be used for link sharing, but in my opinion reddit offers a better kind of model for this with its structured comments section.

I don't think this article offers anything to solve the problem. I believe most of the people can identify the problem. Yeah you check your mail or facebook while you're working and it causes productivity loss. But just being aware of it doesn't solve the problem. It's like when people try to lose weight they know they have to eat healthy or less but just knowing that again doesn't make them easily lose weight. Because just like losing weight, the problem about productivity isn't about knowing what to do or what not to do. Everybody knows what to do, it's simple, no distractions = better work. Real problem is avoiding that one quick facebook check every day and every hour.

I'm interested.