Jabra video on deliberate rest
In September when I was in Europe, I gave a talk at Jabra corporate headquarters, just outside Copenhagen (where I had some excellent food, and saw some cool cats). We shot some video of me talking about deliberate rest, and Jabra has now created a short video from it. (Sorry about the auto-play.)
As a place that makes some outstanding headsets for office use, Jabra is really interested in issues of focus and concentration in business environments, so it turned out to be a great place to talk about deliberate rest and my earlier work on contemplative computing. (I'll confess I have no fewer than four pair of Jabra headphones-- two sets that I've used for everyday listening, a pair of their Bluetooth earbuds, and a set of noise-canceling office headphones. They're all awesome.) And of course they did a great job with the video!
A few months ago I was doing an Al Jazeera show, and during the sound check beforehand one of the other guests described me as "the silver gent." I suppose I see what he meant. Mentally I don't feel like i've aged in the last twenty years (I feel like fundamentally the same person I was when I was a postdoc, or first married), but I have gotten more silver.
And anyone who meets me on the road is likely to see me wearing some variation of those clothes-- the black shirt and black cashmere jacket, and jeans. What can I say; one of my professors extolled the virtues of wearing black on the road, and I still dress that way out of respect for her.