Avoid distraction, focus, and finish that script!
The day I'm trying to finish the copy edits to my book and dealing with an author questionnaire that's about as long as something written for the House
Have playlists and Skype killed culture shock?
I'm old enough to remember how traveling internationally in the 1970s and and 1980s meant communicating through letters or occasional expensive phone calls. At the same time, I've really
Not having WiFi was never so delicious: Kit Kat’s No WiFi Zones
No wonder a Dutch publisher was the first to buy the rights to my book: Nestlé, as part of a Kit Kat advertising campaign, has a set up
“Hey… These things just pop right off!”
That's from a classic Far Side cartoon featuring two bears in a circus, one of whom is holding a muzzle in his hands. It came to mind today
New evidence for human-canine coevolution
When I was in the middle of writing the contemplative computing book, we adopted a dog, an elderly Carolina named Christopher. I hadn't lived with a dog for
“Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”
From Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations, quoted in Damon Young's fine book Distraction: How we labor at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our
Do college students overestimate their time on Facebook?
Rey Junco has a new article suggesting that studies of the impact of Facebook on students need to account for the likelihood that self-reported usage times could be
Texting from the toilet
This number keeps going up, I can't help but notice. Texting from the Toilet: Mobile Computing Use and Acceptance in Public and Private Restrooms The proliferation of mobile
Sherry Turkle on Adam Lanza: “He’s my guy. These are my people.”
I'm at something of a loss to know what to make of this Michael Rosenwald piece about Adam Lanza. Rosenwald was assigned to cover the Sandy Hook shooting,
Keep Breathing, Never Watch a Loading Screen, and Don’t Switch-task, Multitask: iPhone lock screens as nudges
A couple months ago I wrote "Never Watch A Loading Screen" on a Post-It, took a picture of it, and made that picture the lock screen on my