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Continual Partial Attention

Yesterday I wrote about my short history with EVE and how that led me to my particular play style. Essentially, my approach to EVE is what Linda Stone, a former Microsoft researcher, called continuous partial attention . Ms. Stone described a work style familiar to many people in the technology industry; while working on a top-level item while also receiving inputs from a variety of other sources - sources one does not want to miss out on. Indeed, this continuous partial attention phenomenon is based in a desire to become “a node on the network” in order “not to miss anything”. That pretty accurately describes my interest in EVE; something I can keep tabs on pretty constantly, but that I don't really have time to be completely focused on. That has led me to investigating parts of the game that I feel don't get the hype that combat does, or in some cases (like mining) gets an overwhelmingly bad rap from forum and social media posters. The reality though, is that most of th...
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Welcome Aboard

I suppose Blaugust is as good a time as any to start my new blogging project. I have been thinking for a while about what to do with all of the notes and observations I have been collecting along my journey to Space Riches(tm) in EVE Online . For now, the plan is to publish as many of them here as I can without wrecking my own plans. So first, a little about me. I am a relatively new EVE player, with a little over a year of experience at this point. I picked up EVE and began playing at a point in real life where I was transitioning from a very high pressure, physically busy environment to one where I had a lot of time sitting in front of monitors doing things that required only 80% of my attention. That situation, coupled with an interest in building things and developing systems, led me to pursue the parts of EVE that can make ISK either partially or mostly "hands free". As I hope is obvious, I don't mean botting or otherwise automating the client, but developing sy...
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