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Ford, a technophile and writer, builds two models<br \/>\nfor distraction: narrow and broad.&nbsp; Broad distractions commandeer attention<br \/>\nstructures, overwhelming them. Narrow distractions, on the other hand, afford<br \/>\nwide sampling and imagination.&nbsp; They excite, spark, energize.&nbsp; For<br \/>\nFord, who defines his ambitions simply as &quot;I want to be a good writer, and I<br \/>\nwant to have a full command of web technologies,&quot; narrow distraction helps him<br \/>\nmind-skip at a relatively general level.&nbsp; He can bounce from one thing to<br \/>\nanother to another, and this method is crucial to his weekly review for <i><br \/>\nHaper&#8217;s Magazine<\/i>.&nbsp; But it&#8217;s not always so easy to keep the distraction<br \/>\nmodels from blurring. The struggle he writes about is familiar enough,<br \/>\ncomparable, perhaps, to quandaries of specializing and generalizing in an<br \/>\nacademic program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    I struggle, though, because my PC can play a DVD of <i>Red Dawn<\/i> while<br \/>\n    I check my email and work on an essay. This sort of computing power is fine<br \/>\n    for strong-willed people, but for the weak-willed like myself it&#8217;s a<br \/>\n    hopeless situation. My work requires me to patiently work through things and<br \/>\n    come up with fresh ideas. And I can honestly say that since broadband<br \/>\n    Internet came to my home a year and a half ago my stock of new, fresh, fun<br \/>\n    ideas has grown very thin. It&#8217;s just too much. My mind can&#8217;t wander,<br \/>\n    because, with anything that interests me, I can look it up on Wikipedia to<br \/>\n    gain some context. Before I know it I&#8217;ve got thirty tabs open at once in<br \/>\n    Firefox.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have just ten tabs open in Firefox at this very moment, but I&#8217;m sure I went<br \/>\nas high as fifteen earlier today.&nbsp; Maybe twenty.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not interested<br \/>\nin turning this entry into an entry about the demands of grad school (I&#8217;ll<br \/>\nvouch&#8230;it&#8217;s hard). But what&#8217;s hard about it, at least through the coursework<br \/>\nphase, is keeping the narrow from ballooning into the broad.&nbsp; How can I<br \/>\nsustain just enough narrow distraction&#8211;a stream of percolating ideas and<br \/>\npossibilities&#8211;without those habits and practices broadening, jamming up,<br \/>\nfreezing?&nbsp; Fortunately the program I&#8217;m in makes room for figuring<br \/>\nsuch things out.&nbsp; I&#8217;d say that a big part of coursework is learning to<br \/>\ndifferentiate narrow from broad distraction and then channeling the narrow into<br \/>\nproductive, inventive thinking and work habits.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And because two of the tabs I have open in Firefox show descriptions for the<br \/>\ncourses I&#8217;m taking in the spring (my last semester of coursework), I should just<br \/>\nshare the links here and eliminate two tabs.&nbsp; One class is called <i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ccr.syr.edu\/offerings\/651bankss06.html\">Afrofuturism<\/a><\/i>,<br \/>\nand the other is <i><a href=\"http:\/\/ccr.syr.edu\/offerings\/712phelpss06.html\"><br \/>\nMapping the Future: Theory and Practice of &quot;Writing&quot; the Discipline<\/a><\/i>.&nbsp;<br \/>\nBoth will be good classes; I&#8217;m looking forward to them.&nbsp; The third and<br \/>\nfinal course of my program of study will be an elective.&nbsp; Exactly what that<br \/>\ncourse will be remains unresolved, but I have a few encouraging prospects. 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