Dude, YOU need to slow down. Smell the roses, Commune with Nature, .....
I wonder if the author aware that he is getting dinged for notifications that download onto his phone and uploads from his phone to his watch?
Many years ago, I wouldn’t use hands free while driving because I feared people would look at me talking and think I was a nut. If I wanted to talk to myself, I just held the phone to my face and nobody knew the difference.
Couldn’t he just silence the notification chimes and in addition opt for zero tactile signals such as vibrate.
This would also require focusing on your actual physical environment. Reality usually occurs at much slower and more subtle rate of speed. Very little Flash and Bang.
It must be very puzzling that so many get through life without even owning a "smartphone" whatever that is supposed to be.
Don’t know about the watch, but shelling out hundreds to get something that has to be charged daily and is useless without a relay station (da fone) seems to me (as a science type) way beyond dumb....almost into the Hillary class.
But then again we elected Dorkbama the Muslim, so ‘twould appear there are lots of those types around.
“Don’t let it turn you into a rude bastard.”
How can a watch turn you into a child born out of wedlock?
/sarc
Remember the cr@p George HW Bush took for looking at his watch during one of his debates??
So this guy chooses to be a distracted idiot and let his phone or watch constantly tap him on the shoulder, as he admits it mostly nonsense notifications. I have a “smartphone” but I only check it if I get a phone call or a text message. But there are times I won’t even take the call or hear the message (such as in church, when it is on ‘silent’).
I remember the advent of Bluetooth, when rude people could be standing talking to you, and get a phone call and begin talking to the caller, without even so much as an “excuse me, I have a phone call”. Technology doesn’t make people rude, that’s a choice they make.
I’m quite content with my old Casio ‘dumb’ watch that tells me the time when I look at it. that is all I require in a watch, and my old Casio does that quite well.
Quite a few phone users are rude bastards already, no smartwatch needed.
Or, you know, you could have enough self-discipline to NOT look at it just because it buzzed. People do it with their phones and their bowels all the time. Let it sit until you have a proper moment to figure out what it is and take care of it.