Narrowing Distraction: Podcasts
I’m so easily distracted… If you’ve been reading this blog over the past couple of months, you’ve picked up on that. I’ve put in my fair share of time thinking about how to stay on task. It’s perhaps one of the hallmarks of my generation that we are terrible multitaskers but we cannot stand to do just one thing at a time. (That was far more philosophical than I intended for it to be.)
Lately, I’ve been listening to several podcasts in the background as I’ve worked on various things. I bet I probably miss about half of what is said, but it helps me to stay on task. I’m not entirely sure why.
A tool that’s been greatly useful to me is Juice. Juice is a podcast receiver. It doesn’t slow down your computer like iTunes tends to, and it’s really good at doing one thing — keeping up with the podcasts you want to listen to. I can fire it up once a day, it checks for new episodes of whatever I’ve told it to check for, and it downloads them automatically and keeps them organized.
If you’re having to remember to go check a certain person or organization’s feeds each day, Juice could be the answer. I know it’s helping me to be spending less time finding my distraction breaking distraction.
What podcasts do you listen to?
Lately: engadget (nerdz), grammar girl, writing excuses, manager tools, puck podcast, occasionally ravi zacharias, John Piper, the Relevant Magazine podcast. Occasionally I’ll throw in something video game related, I think that covers it. What about you, matt?
Mostly just Writing Excuses. Sometimes I listen to the Urdu version of J. Vernon Mgee…you know…for Urdu…
I’ll have to check out Relevant.
So, I finally hear about and read your elusive blog and find out you’re “on the juice”.
And the rage that this juice creates, Aunt Andrea, you can’t imagine!