{"id":408,"date":"2010-01-06T23:44:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2010-01-06T23:44:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:14:13","slug":"are-we-pavlovs-dog-to-email-twitter-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/are-we-pavlovs-dog-to-email-twitter-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we Pavlov’s dog to email, twitter, facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pavlov'sThat sweet sound of an @reply on my twhirl makes me rush to the laptop, a new email alert makes me fire the browser irrespective of that email being read & replied later. The list goes on and on..the itch to check\/change the status on facebook, to continuous monitoring of analytics data.<\/p>\n

I hate my mobile email — I check, check, check..but postpone the response ‘coz the form factor is good for reading only — so the email doesn’t get responded or time is wasted to revisit it.<\/p>\n

Feels like we have become a Pavlovian dog<\/a> to the ever increasing distractions on the web. If you are developer on a maker’s schedule<\/a>, the loss of concentration is busting the efficiency.<\/p>\n

We are not going to kick the Pavlovian habit, nor we gonna kick the tools we have — but the tools have to get smarter in their delivery of these small bits of information, which they are falling behind on. I’m still waiting for a combined email, social network tool which prioritizes, filters, reminds, and work as personal crm tool rather than separate units of email client, social client, mobile client, readers, etc.<\/p>\n

“When I’m in a deep Java debugging session on eclipse, please do not email me, pause all the tweets except from my wife, cousin and investor” — huh, the desktop anti-virus applies a bit of that intelligence already, why can’t my email do the same?<\/p>\n

One of my resolutions of 2010 is to do something or get something done in this area (or aggressively consume a product if someone is already doing it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That sweet sound of an @reply on my twhirl makes me rush to the laptop, a new email alert makes me fire the browser irrespective of that email being read & replied later. The list goes on and on..the itch to check\/change the status on facebook, to continuous monitoring of analytics data. I hate my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[174],"tags":[338,339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}