Koan of the day
Users are to the computer industry as women in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own are to men. Discuss.
The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator: example of mind wandering, or distraction?
The distinction is one I've been thinking about today. How does it appy to the Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator? (thanks, Heather!)
What’s your favourite definition of mindfulness?
I'm occasionally asked to define mindfulness, and after stumbling on it one time too many, decided that I needed to come up with an elevator pitch-level description. I've
Distraction versus mind-wandering
A writer at text2cloud (honestly, I've looked for an author credit, but turn up empty-handed) argues for a distinction between distraction and mind-wandering. I greatly admire Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness,
Wandering minds, distraction, and happiness: The Track Your Happiness study
Klint Finley points me to an answer to my question about the relationship between distraction and happiness: the Track Your Happiness study, conducted by Harvard scientists Daniel Gilbert and
Seneca, prophet of flow
There are a couple brief mentions of Stoic philosophy in Flow, but this weekend, when I read Seneca's Letters from a Stoic, I was really struck by how
Happiness and distraction?
I'min the process of knitting together my reading on flow, mindfulness, contemplation, etc., with an eye to 1) constructing a kind of grand unified theory to support contemplative