From Graham Wallas, The Art of Thought: Voluntary abstention from conscious thought on any particular problem may, itself, take two forms: the period of abstention may be spent
I’ve been thinking a little about how to promote Rest: Why Working Less Gets More Done when it comes out next year (I’m well on the way to
…it is. But so is flying and texting, which has become a worry for the NTSB, and is implicated in a helicopter crash, according to Quartz: The survivor
From Oakland-based artist Molly McLeod: I’m a fan of the smartphone wallpaper as nudge, having created a few myself (and perhaps inspired WNYC’s Bored and Brilliant wallpapers). You
Interesting article by Cameron Tonkinwise on “The Practically Living Weight of Convenient Things:" Some metaphors eventually ‘take’ and solidify into intuited experiences of things that they previously only
In the New Republic Stephen Akey has a piece complaining about how literary agents choose who to represent. "Everyone’s trying to make a buck and literary agencies can
Incredibly, Jonah Lehrer is only the second most unlikely person to have scored a book deal this past week. During my trip to the East Coast last week,
Nice turn of phrase from Oliver Burkeman.
Lewis Lapham on how he writes: I didn’t enlist the help of a computer because words so quickly dressed up in the costume of print can pretend to
Is this for real? Have we finally reached the point where this is is a thing that happened? Some places have lanes for bicycles, others for motorcycles, but