Sitemap - 2013 - Rest, Work, and the Good Life
The "Misunderstood" Rorschach test
Selfies and selfishness, or, Google is not a vitamin
A note against the "Don't blame smartphones" argument
Smartphones behave like kids: A new video shows how
Adding qualia to quantity: Linda Stone's idea of the Essential Self
Buddhist Geeks podcast, now featuring more me
"Do you break out in a cold sweat if you forget your smart phone at home?"
"For younger high school boys... social networking has actually improved writing"
Twitter "seems to have been built with uncanny precision to hijack my kind of mind"
...in which, in an article on technology and gratification, I assure readers that I'm not a drunk
Rest is Not Idleness: John Lubbock, Charles Darwin, and the Value of Daydreams
Are you an Internet addict? Take this quiz!
Smartphones will connect urbanites, unless they're getting shot on Muni
CanFocus and push-button concentration
"The point is not to shun technology... [but] to reflect on how it's used"
Is "self-knowledge through numbers" another way of saying "don't ever go offline"?
Distraction and mental illness: Can the former cause the latter?
New distracted driving messages
Hand gestures and intelligence
29 million missed stops thanks to distraction
As if we needed more reminders not to drive distracted
"that which is vital we ignore"
Shockingly, best practices in mobile app push strategies don't think much about the user's attention
A good example of how extended minds go bad: Sociopathic drivers
"we couldn’t stand in line somewhere for even five minutes without looking at our phones"
Damon Young on cyborgs and freedom
Is Google Glass an anti-distraction tool?
Contemplative computing in the Guardian
Iron Man 3 on machines and distractions
Students "could not go for 15 minutes without engaging their devices"
White Men Wearing Google Glasses was bound to happen sooner or later
Shorter HTC First™ AT&T Commercial: "Blow me, reality"
Texting while walking, coming through!
"I don’t think we want our bodies to be UIs:" wrong ways to think about wearables
Philippe Starck: "I live with myself in front of my white page."
More on my whitelist iPhone experiment
"Choose carefully, because you’re choosing your future brain"
Interview about digital distraction on KALW
The airplane is "a good place to code"
Listen to "Texting and tranquility: Finding mental calm in a sea of distraction" tonight at 7pm
Texting while flying is now a thing
Brain fatigue and walks in Edinburgh
Background noise generator: Rainy Cafe Machine
Self-experiments with tweeting and whitelists
"we can educate ourselves, even in the digital era, to be more attentive"
Don't like your your phone "buzzing like a beehive with status updates"? Try it on your face!
Sergey was right, they ARE emasculating! Smartphone-using men now pee sitting down
On the "slowness" of slow tech: Is it about specs, or about experience?
Today I am a man: I have a tiny computer strapped to my forehead
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
Facebook "exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does"
Distraction is "the curse of the postmodern age"
Little practices, big results: Nudges toward greater mindfulness
Data-points on digital distraction: Dilbert and Daniel Pink
Restoration, thinking paths and obliquity
The panoptic Gaze was never so stylish: Felipe Luchi's digital device prisons
Excerpt from talk at Hachette Book Group
"The problem is not email. The problem is people."
Horse therapy and Internet addiction
Remodelista's "10 Cures for TechnoStress"
"…an American game called 'Don't be a dick at dinner'..."
"having a Pebble changes the contours of distraction, but doesn’t reduce it"
"there was no alternative to constant, ubiquitous engagement"
Avoid distraction, focus, and finish that script!
Not having WiFi was never so delicious: Kit Kat's No WiFi Zones
"Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself."
"Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself"
"to be distracted is to be torn away from what is worthwhile in life"