Words to write by
Alain de Botton: To edit oneself properly, one has to let enough time pass to forget what one was trying to say – so as to see if
Breathe I/O
I'm deep in revising the first couple chapters of the contemplative computing book and so have been pouring most of my energy into the manuscript, rather than here.
Quote of the day: Susan Maushart
From the opening pages of Susan Maushart's The Winter of Our Disconnect, a book I picked up this winter in Cambridge (thank you, Waterstone's 3 for 2 mix and
Today’s workspace
Upstairs at Peets Coffee and Tea, downtown Palo Alto. via flickr
Working on the next chapter
This week: embodied cognition, extended selves, and why social media is like a limb you can't control. working at cafe zoë, via flickr I'm finding that the combination
Great example of embodied knowledge: The English typesetter and the Greek typo
From John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, The Social Life of Information: There's a story told of a typesetter working on a Greek text at the Oxford University
Colbert on the cloud
I'm deep in writing right now, so until I surface, here's Stephen Colbert's genius piece on the cloud and memory. The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full
Do Facebook users spend more time online than computer scientists in the 1960s?
There's a claim-- I found it first in one of Geoff "Nunberg Error" Nunberg's articles-- that before they were all put on CDs, the documentation for a 747
“Slowly, the tools of the hand disappear”
My architectural history mentor, David Brownlee, shared a link to this essay by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien on slowness and hand-work in architectural practice. This is a
Fred Stutzman on Freedom, productivity, and bigger/better/faster vs. smaller/better/slower
Fred Stutzman, the creator of Freedom and Anti-Social, and now a postdoc at CMU (and like me, a Microsoft Research Lab alum) has a very nice reflection about