Author Archives: Taylor Sniffen

For our final post of the semester we created comprehensive white papers, detailing the need for deep work with in our field of interest. When originally assigned this project I thought I was going to need to pick between my two top fields of interest in school, journalism and film, but then after thinking forContinue reading “The Death of Deep Work is the Death of Story Telling”

So by the title, it sounds like I’m being super dramatic, and I am, but let me explain. I don’t mean that someone emptied our bank accounts or stole jewelry from inside our house. I mean we’ve been robbed of our time and our ability to think without turning to technology. Over the past fewContinue reading “We’ve Been Robbed Blind, and We Never Noticed”

Reflection and Review, that’s the theme of the week as we look back and see what we’ve been able to learn so far from this course and from our exhaustive deep work that we chronicle on these blog posts. So that’s the big question, have I actually learned anything? The answer is yes, to myContinue reading “Have I Actually Learned Anything?”

So as I stated in the blog before this one, this week in class we talked about project management and as part of the assignment we each had to set up a work flow page and make a bunch of actionable tasks in order to complete the large project that we chose to break up.Continue reading “You Say Project Management, I Say a Waste of Time”

So we have hit the halfway point in the semester and everyone is drowning in work. And while you might think that must mean deep work and the productivity of long term projects is at an all-time high, in fact, and especially for me, it is at an all-time low. I have so many projectsContinue reading “Are Apps Making Things Easier or Harder?”

So these past two weeks, we have been discussing the addiction and pitfalls of social media. The biggest issue that was discussed was that Generation Y has become the most addicted to their phones due to the different social media apps that we have. In Jean M. Twenge’s article in the Atlantic she creates aContinue reading “Does Unplugging Actually Unhack?”

These past few weeks we have been reading about social media and how over the past two decades or so these different platforms have taken over and changed the way we as a society do and view things. In a large overarching lesson, social media has changed the way we view people, relationships, social events,Continue reading “We Post for Validation, Not for Love”

So I was told in class to sit down, focus and read a whole bunch of articles and a section of this very daunting book. So I sat down (great I accomplished one step in the process) and then the next step, focusing. Within the first 10 minutes I failed, which made reading and comprehendingContinue reading “If a Princess Can Do It, Then Why Can’t I?”