My name is Maurice. This is basically a dump site for the interesting things I stumble across on the web... What if my bookmarks were hard to get to? What if I stripped all the links out of the article I’m reading? What if I had to solve an algebra problem before jumping into Google Reader? Would I go? What if every time I turned on my TV, it told me that the average American spends 2 months watching television per year? Would I watch? What if I created a user account on my Mac with harsh parental controls called “Work”? (Ironic.) We can all do this on a personal level, but there could be whole businesses built on de-optimizing and short-circuiting distractions.
— Frank Chimero on de-optimizing (via davidhoffman) 2 years ago.
