“Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.” That was Nietzsche in 1887. But it could have just as easily been Louis C.K. (We “don’t want to be alone for a second because it’s so hard”) or some other modern day philosopher explaining why we’re unable — or unwilling — to focus. In The New Yorker, Joshua Rothman suggests a new theory of distraction. Lately, I’ve noticed that I’ll go to a site like Facebook to do something, but when I get there, I completely forget what I was there to do. The distraction is distracting me from itself. (I’m pretty sure that qualifies me as a power user.)

+ “Making concessions for people with shorter attention spans, a desire to multitask and, yes, a need to check their phones all the time.” How the 49ers are changing how they operate to cater to the iPhone generation.

+ The staircase with three lanes: Walk. Run. Text.