Attention Spans

Tom McLaughlin   ·  

Our nonscientific study suggests that, on average, business people can pay attention for no more than thirty to sixty seconds without being distracted by an unrelated thought.

The Trusted Advisor: 20th Anniversary Edition by David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, et al.

I think this might be an argument against trying to tl;dr the shit out of everything. I’m not saying everything needs to be a pleonastic. It’s just that I might be thinking about meatball sandwiches or something when we’re discussing ephemeral preview environments.