Four months a year on email
Jordan Weissmann at the Atlantic catches a new report on office work:There's a good chance you spend more than a quarter of each week reading and answering those
Academic publishing “is pure rentier capitalism”
George Monbiot calls publishers like Elsevier and Springer "the most ruthless capitalists in the Western world": What we see here is pure rentier capitalism: monopolising a public resource
Frogs do NOT mindlessly boil to death if first put in cold water: A note on tech addiction
Alexis Madrigal sighs, "Another day, another New York Times story about technology addiction." He's pointing to a Matt Richtel article about concerns about technology addiction-- right in the
Jack Cheng on the Slow Web: “Timely not real-time. Rhythm not random. Moderation not excess. Knowledge not information.”
James Fallows points out a great-- no, not great, really fantastic-- essay by Brooklyn-based designer and writer Jack Cheng, on the Slow Web: The Slow Web Movement is
Cool contemplative technology: Buddhist chant boxes
I just found out about these: Buddhist chant boxes are small sound loop players sold in Buddhist temples, monasteries, and markets throughout Asia. The idea is that without
Texting while walking is a bad idea
The other day my wife showed me a video of a woman who falls into a fountain at a mall because she's distracted by texting. This isn't the
Reflections on writing
Some thoughts about book writing as a team sport.Posted with Blogsy
How writing a book is like racing in the Tour de France, and not like self-marketing
I sent off the revised draft of my book last Friday, and celebrated this weekend by watching the end of the Tour de France. the book is back, via
Version 2.0
I sent the revised manuscript to my editor on Friday. via Flickr I cut about 15%, and got it back under 100,000 words. Most of the cuts were
Quote of the day
These days he spent very little time surfing the web, which now seemed, on reflection, a giant collective conspiracy to waste time. Given infinite freedom of intellectual movement,