CanFocus and push-button concentration
I recently found out about a Canadian company, CanFocus, and their in-development product, MyFocus. You might think of it as a neutron bomb for digital distractions: it's a
XKCD on multiple channels
Great:
“Actively ignoring everything that I didn’t think was important enough to distract me felt (and feels) great”
Evan Solomon, an engineer at Medium, describes his efforts to "ignore all distractions from my phone when I’m with other people:" There’s an expanding set of distractions in most
“Communication is the key to an email sabbatical”
That may sound contradictory at first glance, but it's sound advice from Microsoft Research scientist danah boyd about taking an August email sabbatical: Communication is the key to
Ferrari puts the brakes on mass email
Another company trying to cut down on internal email and encourage more face-to-face communication, via the Guardian: Italian manufacturer Ferrari is concerned that the indiscriminate use of emails
Why do we “check” our email? What happens if we call it something else?
Jonathan Rowson at the RSA, who goes on my very long list of people I'd like to one day meet in person when I'm in London, muses over
More on my whitelist iPhone experiment
A friend of mine asks for clarification about my recent ringtone experiment: So, explain the silent ringtone a bit more? How do you do it, and doesn't it
Listen to “Texting and tranquility: Finding mental calm in a sea of distraction” tonight at 7pm
I'll be on City Lights radio tonight at 7 pm, talking about digital distraction with Neema Moraveji and Stephanie Brown. City Visions Radio presents: Texting and Tranquility: Finding
“A ‘free and frictionless’ method of communication had soft costs equivalent to procuring a small company Learjet”
Tom Cochran describes his office's email overload problem in a Harvard Business Review blog post: My job description does not include managing email flow. Yours probably doesn't, either.
Quote of the day
From Michael Stausser's "Sleeping With Siri:" The difference between getting something via snail mail and opening an e-mail is like the difference between a visit from Kate Beckinsale