Comments on: Ode to technology http://www.jackzen.com/2005/05/13/ode-to-technology/ ...........................just noticing Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:24:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: ZenFilter http://www.jackzen.com/2005/05/13/ode-to-technology/#comment-105 Thu, 19 May 2005 13:55:33 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/05/13/ode-to-technology/#comment-105 This also gets to the question of whether multi-tasking saves time or just insures that you do everything mindlessly. I've found over time that doing one thing at a time is the real time (and sanity) saver. This also gets to the question of whether multi-tasking saves time or just insures that you do everything mindlessly. I’ve found over time that doing one thing at a time is the real time (and sanity) saver.

]]> by: Lois http://www.jackzen.com/2005/05/13/ode-to-technology/#comment-104 Fri, 13 May 2005 23:40:53 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/05/13/ode-to-technology/#comment-104 Jack: At a workshop I attended recently the teacher spoke of opposing forces, such as liberation and limitation. I wrestle with those forces all the time. I am a firm believer in abundance, yet must admit that while encased in human flesh, I am subject to limitation. Being a raving extrovert, I want to embrace life passionately, and I do! Yet there is also a drive to accept the fact that I face very real limits in this lifetime. You know all too well what a "squishy" relationship I have with time. I think that is because I am always trying to pack too many things into too little time. I am trying more and more, however, to accept with grace and dignity the fact that I can't get everything done that I'd like to do. The distortion that we can "have it all" may be one of the worst burdens our culture has foisted upon us, and "good" technology may well have been co-opted in service to that lie. Jack: At a workshop I attended recently the teacher spoke of opposing forces, such as liberation and limitation. I wrestle with those forces all the time. I am a firm believer in abundance, yet must admit that while encased in human flesh, I am subject to limitation. Being a raving extrovert, I want to embrace life passionately, and I do! Yet there is also a drive to accept the fact that I face very real limits in this lifetime. You know all too well what a “squishy” relationship I have with time. I think that is because I am always trying to pack too many things into too little time. I am trying more and more, however, to accept with grace and dignity the fact that I can’t get everything done that I’d like to do. The distortion that we can “have it all” may be one of the worst burdens our culture has foisted upon us, and “good” technology may well have been co-opted in service to that lie.

]]> by: Jeff Hess http://www.jackzen.com/2005/05/13/ode-to-technology/#comment-103 Fri, 13 May 2005 21:52:54 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/05/13/ode-to-technology/#comment-103 Shalom Jack, Have you read Jeremy Rifkin's 1987 book Time Wars? B'shalom, Jeff Shalom Jack,

Have you read Jeremy Rifkin’s 1987 book Time Wars?

B’shalom,

Jeff

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