Why is apparently seen as acceptabele in #academia to go to a talk, open your laptop, and then work on totally unrelated stuff while the speaker is talking? I find this unbelievably rude, but I see it all the time.
@victorgijsbers @fuzzyleapfrog see, people are different. If I was solving sudoku I wouldn't be paying attention.
Reading/writing plus listening to unrelated content in a narrative/conversational form in the same language or German/English is often needed to match my focus to the current input, possibly puzzles that use visual memory; crafts for audiovisual input - if I listen/watch "attentively" to a talk/lesson without doing anything else, I just drift into daydreams