"TECHNOLOGY is having a double-edged impact in the workplace, says Ed Reilly, president and chief executive of the American Management Association. It improves productivity, he says, but it may also be a distraction that prevents high-quality thinking."
I like the sound of that phrase: "high-quality thinking."
How important is high-quality thinking to my work and life, and what do I do to pursue it?
Certainly time-management is crucial. Also relating to people that stimulate my thinking, and putting myself in learning contexts. And carving out blocks of time for thinking rather than for action.
It reminds me of a phrase I read in a bok by Eugene Peterson more than 20 years ago. "When did the pastor's study become the pastor's office?"
And back then, we didn't even have computers in our offices. Or fax machines. Or cell phones! But I think even 2,000 years ago it was easy to let activity crowd out the "high-level" functions of thinking and spiritual formation.
"We apostles should spend our time preaching and teaching the word of God, not administering a food program." Acts 6:2
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