Comments on: Ferret mode http://cultureby.com/2008/02/ferret-mode.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:33:19 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anthrodiva http://cultureby.com/2008/02/ferret-mode.html/comment-page-1#comment-1956 Anthrodiva Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:27:41 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-1956 <p>In the reverse, I'd just like to offer that I have become habituated to writing while wearing swimmer's ear plugs. It really clamps down on ambient distraction (though you can still hear the phone ring) and forces one to concentrate. </p> <p>Like the assumptions you keep referring to lately, ambient noise is often not perceived, but can have a destructive impact on focus. </p> In the reverse, I'd just like to offer that I have become habituated to writing while wearing swimmer's ear plugs. It really clamps down on ambient distraction (though you can still hear the phone ring) and forces one to concentrate.

Like the assumptions you keep referring to lately, ambient noise is often not perceived, but can have a destructive impact on focus.

]]> By: Katarina Graffman http://cultureby.com/2008/02/ferret-mode.html/comment-page-1#comment-1955 Katarina Graffman Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:59:10 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-1955 <p>If you don't use the phone it looks something like this doing ethnography in the modern world :)<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RtJN1Kq5O8&eurl" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RtJN1Kq5O8&eurl</a></p> If you don't use the phone it looks something like this doing ethnography in the modern world :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RtJN1Kq5O8&eurl

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