Parenting AI
I've often said that in their factory settings, smartphones behave like children: they want your attention all the time, they don't share your mental map of what's important
Hello from Bentonville Arkansas, most interesting place in the world
This year I’ve given talks in Tokyo, Osaka, Baku, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, London, Montreal, Palm Springs, and other places. But I think the coolest place I’ve been to all year
New York Times article on sabbaticals
This sign sums up my sabbatical I’m quoted in an article about “Do-It-Yourself Sabbaticals” in today’s New York Times. It’s a good piece, if I do say so
My talk at Google
Recently I was at Google, at the invitation of the Asian Googlers Network, to talk about Rest, my new work on the 4-day week, and even a bit
Erling Kagge on silence as “the new luxury”
An interesting short interview in Natural Awakenings with author and publisher Erling Kagge, author of a new book about the importance of silence: Why do you consider silence,
Why deliberate rest is important for learning and professional development
Yesterday I wrote about William Heneage Ogilvie’s essay “In Praise of Idleness,” in which he makes the case for the importance of “idleness” in the lives of doctors
“What people are angry about… is that we no longer feel in control of the technology in our lives”
In my book The Distraction Addiction I talked about how humans have evolved to have incredibly powerful relationships with technologies, starting with hand axes a million years ago,
The “Think Differently About Kids” letter
JANA Partners and Calstrs have published a pretty amazing open letter calling for Apple to rethink its design of its products, with the aim of making them less
“you don’t need to choose between your smartphone and self-care,”
Minnesota-based author Elizbaeth Millard talks about my books The Distraction Addiction and Rest in a new article piece about self-care in The Growler, an online magazine about the
“One day without notifications changes behaviour for two years”
Several years ago, Spanish telecommunications firm Telefónica ran something called the Do Not Disturb Challenge. It's one of a number of such events that have been sponsored by