Concentration

A question I am passionate about came up today in namesake.com:

“I’ve got a TERRIBLE memory. I believe it might be due to the inability to concentrate. I usually can’t work on one task for too long. Any suggestions on how to improve my concentration and my memory?”

I am trying to get back in the habit of writing here, so I figured I would take this opportunity to share my answer here on thomasknoll.info as well.

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What would it look like to graph your attention?

Chris has got me pondering what an attention graph would look like, after reading his thoughts about Internet, Social, Interest, Taste, Financial Trust, Local, and Endorsement graphs.

Maybe, in an attention graph, the nodes are attention sources, and relations are time? But then, the relations would have to be measured in a zero-sum game?

I’m still just thinking out loud here, so I’d love someone smarter than me to help out in the comments.