Sitemap - 2012 - Rest, Work, and the Good Life
"Even in small doses, mindfulness can effect impressive changes in how we feel and think"
"The problem is, too many writers today are afraid to be still"
"in our frenetic, technology-obsessed age we have lost the ability to contemplate"
Surprising study: College students want quiet space, can't find it
Your challenge is accepted, Wall Street Journal
Quote of the Day: Nassim Taleb
Distraction Addiction Flickr set and slideshow
Ancient multitasking is older than we thought: Evidence from stone spear use and arrow manufacture
You damn kids get off my lawn, with your misinterpretations of neuroplasticity and media history!
A forgotten piece of the book: an essay on Digital Panglosses versus Digital Cassandras
The downside of flow: Machine gambling
Skiing isn't exciting enough? Add email and phone calls!
From information fast to information fasts
Smartphones and sleepless nights in Northern Ireland
Malaysian version of contemplative computing talk
Stephen Poole on "the rise of popular neurobollocks"
"email is the biggest killer of my productivity"
Shiny happy people going offline
On tweeting during concerts, and the purpose of criticism
Meditation apps and the cost of experience
"Articles and ideas are only as good as the fees you can get for talking about them."
Texting drivers "could travel the length of a football field without looking at the street"
"The average American first checks their phone around 7:09 a.m."
"we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs"
Bertrand Russell on the "fatal... habit of thinking of the 'next thing'"
Augmented reality, old school: glasses that make women fuzzy?
"I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident"
Philadelphia, unfortunately, will NOT have a sidewalk e-lane for textestrians
Academic publishing "is pure rentier capitalism"
Frogs do NOT mindlessly boil to death if first put in cold water: A note on tech addiction
Texting while walking is a bad idea
Finally, a machine dispensing scalding liquids from your dashboard
"ill post-modern commentary-type s*** about the nature of gadgets and relationships"
New AF447 crash report and the perils of automation
Essay on Janet Murray and Howard Rheingold books
Sleep texting: It's a true thing that exists
Does "self-plagiarism" exist? On Jonah Lehrer and my own blogging / writing
Why advertising agencies develop Zenware
The enabling / distracting / alienating use of smart phones in public spaces
What the heck is going on with comment spam?
The new digital divide: How kids USE devices, not whether they have them
Worthwhile simple thought of the day
Great Michael Lewis piece on luck
Is "culture of distraction" an oxymoron? Joe Kraus on Slow Tech
What is Contemplative Computing?
Shortening grad school completion times
"We're drowning in email:" The Email Charter's call for change
Gloria Mark et al on e-mail, multitasking and stress
Multitasking, always-on, and the pleasures of things that feel like work
Don't reach there: Grabbing attention as faux paux
"heavy media multitaskers are not deficient in all kinds of cognitive tasks"
So much for arguments against multitasking
Tim McCormick on "Healthier Information"
Still life of mobile work, with dog
How do you choose print versus digital versions of books?
Who holds the keys to weapons of mass distraction?
"if libraries did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them"
Are cell phones not handheld kill-bots in disguise after all?
Is sharing the new creativity? I don't think so
Another data-point from the intersection of technology and religion
"What really changed my life was my decision to write every day"
"I would rather people talk about the books than how I publish them"
The revival of the archaic meaning of "addiction" in social media
How Newt Gingrich is like the History Channel