# Linda Stone on Maintaining Focus in a Maddeningly Distractive World - James Fallows - The Atlantic

<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/linda-stone-on-maintaining-focus-in-a-maddeningly-distractive-world/276201/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

As I mentioned a few minutes ago, our new issue includes a Q-and-A I did with Linda Stone, coiner of the term "continuous partial attention," on how to maintain sanity and focus in an insane and unfocused world. Here is the promised extended-play bonus version, beyond what we could work into two pages of the magazine:

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