Sitemap - 2015 - Rest, Work, and the Good Life
Nelson Mandela on exercise on Robben Island
"The human voice still holds our attention"
"digital tools have been engineered specifically to elicit compulsive behaviour"
"I’m not a writer, I’m a rewriter"
Linus Pauling: "We need to study the general problem of the genesis of ideas"
Scraps of time versus sheets of time: why unbroken summers are good
In modern world, spam eat you!
This is why I turn off alerts: New study finds awareness of notifications is a distraction
Winston Churchill on "painting as a pastime"
Nature and creative problem solving: how days in the wood boost creativity
"...very gradually build up living and creative structures within us"
Wilder Penfield: "Rest, with nothing else, results in rust"
Michael Corballis: "we are programmed to alternate between mind-wandering and paying attention"
"men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work the least"
"intellectual refreshment withers the parasitic and nasty vegetation that smothers the good seed"
John Le Carré: "I was always very careful to give my country second-best"
Erno Rubik, Graham Wallas, and the invention of the Rubik's Cube
"the stage of incubation should include a large amount of actual mental relaxation"
Buying celebrity experiences and the economics of creative work
Turn the Apple Watch "from an accessory of distraction into a tool of genuine usefulness"
If you think driving and texting is bad...
My Washington Post interview: "How Charles Darwin used rest to be more productive"
Interview with ABC Sunshine Coast on technology and distraction
"structure how information flows through your life"
Matthew Crawford on "Overcoming Society’s Distraction Addiction"
Molly McLeod's iPhone wallpapers
This could be the cover of my next book
"the person who initiates the solution to a problem is different from the one who solves it"
"We know how to use tools; the problem is that our smartphones don’t know how to be good ones."
"What if describing someone as mundane was a new compliment?"
"We want you to start actually seeing that phone-free world around you:" Bored and Brilliant, Day 2
"we are ready to technologize boredom itself"
WNYC's Bored and Brilliant challenge
Digital detox, Brazilian edition
Taiwan: Internet overuse is as bad as "smoking, drinking, chewing betel nut and using drugs"
What "How people ignored each other before smartphones" gets wrong
"Nothing's wrong, I'm just going off to be bored"
Pew Research looks at technology's impact on workers. You won't believe what happens next.
You must pay attention to these gigantic eyes: The Art of Attentiveness project
You can't get away: Twitter creates "While You Were Away" feature