dnd pls (do not disturb, please)

DND, pls!

Why technology and social media f*ck up our work and relationships

Philippe CreytensCloud Conference - May 27, 2014

http://goo.gl/SbGd2o

(Do Not Disturb, please)

I’m preaching to the choir...

We are moving (too?) slowly towards the knowledge society with its knowledge workers.

Uh? Knowledge workers?

“What differentiates knowledge work from other forms of work is its primary task of ‘non-routine’ problem solving that requires a combination of convergent, divergent, and creative thinking.”

Wikipedia

Dangers of “distractions”

We become less creative and screw up relationships!

DND, pls

Do not disturb, pleaaaaase…. and find balance (again)

Use your smartphone, smartly

Question: How many times do people check their smartphones?

A - Less than 10 times a day

B - Less than 50 times a day

C - More than 50 times a day

Use your smartphone, smartly

Question: How many times do people check their smartphones?

A - Less than 10 times a day

B - Less than 50 times a day

C - More than 50 times a day

150

http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/smartphone-users-check-their-phones-an-average-of-150-times-a-day-86984.html

Smartphone, #1 source of distractionsSurf: 25 min/day

Social media: 17 min/day

Games: 13 min/day

Music: 16 min/day

Calls: 12 min/day

54% uses as alarm clock

46% replace wrist watch

40% replaces camera

6% replaces book and TV

source: O2

Our friends Darwin and Pavlov

Dealing with distractions is in our genes

Our friends Darwin and Pavlov

Conditioned by distractions, chemicals at work...

Fear of Missing Out, phantom vibrations, ADHD behavior and narcissism on social media

The office environment

Open plan offices (noisy colleagues) and M&M’s (meetings & managers)

Other work related distractions

and exploding mailboxes*, not literally

* Personal favorite

What will we lose?

Creativity

“We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.”

John Cleese

http://youtu.be/kH8uYDJlwog

Aha!-Erlebnis

Space and time for deep thoughts

Flow (and happiness)

High

HighLow

Challenges and

complexity

Individual skills

Panic Anxiety Concerns

FLOW

Boredom

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Our memory

Is memory like a muscle that needs to be trained?

Multitasking, a myth

Multitasking is a myth

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

M (write first number) u (write second number)...

1 ...2...

Time?

What we will lose on a more personal level...

Social contacts

The (lost) art of conversation

Work/life balance

BMW bans email after 18h and during weekends

The solution… partly

On the seventh day...

Start small, one day a week...

More tips to come in my upcoming book...

Philippe Creytens

google.com/+PhilippeCreytens

@pcreytens

pc@kumondo.com