Design, distraction, and doctor-patient relationships
Electronic health records (EHRs) have been around for a few years. You've probably seen them, or at least seen a doctor access them: at my doctor's office every
At tech companies “a calm mind is the new in thing”
Computerworld recently had a piece about "Tech companies find their inner Zen:" For high-tech powerhouses like Intel and Google, where scientists and engineers are focused on goals like
Common e-mail strategies “can be detrimental to other goals and the people that we work with”
Kingston Business School professor Emma Russell has been researching e-mail interruptions [pdf] and strategies (good and bad) for dealing with them. Science Daily reports that Russell conducted in-depth
Stop multitasking, schedule email, fight the “distraction addiction”… where have I heard all this before?
Lots of stuff in my Twitter feed coming in about an article by business consultant Kevin Eikenberry titled, wait for it, "Overcoming the Distraction Addiction." [W]hat can we
“often the best way to… persuade people… is by putting things down on paper in a kind of careful and deliberate way”
Supreme Court justices don't communicate with each other via email. Elena Kagan explains why: [Y]ou have to remember that the Court is an institution where...we're not horse trading.
“It isn’t a rejection of technology and connectedness, but a reclaiming of control over it. Brands can help people with that.”
This 2012 presentation on digital detoxes, Zenware, and other efforts to buy escapes from distraction by Kasi Bruno, Director of Strategy and Cultural Insight at Young & Rubicam
“In a world of… information all over you, spending 20 minutes purposefully not thinking of anything is a wonderful thing”
The Financial Times recently had an article about meditation in finance: Backed by clinical trials and married with neuroscience, the idea that meditation can help anyone find a
CanFocus and push-button concentration
I recently found out about a Canadian company, CanFocus, and their in-development product, MyFocus. You might think of it as a neutron bomb for digital distractions: it's a
“Communication is the key to an email sabbatical”
That may sound contradictory at first glance, but it's sound advice from Microsoft Research scientist danah boyd about taking an August email sabbatical: Communication is the key to
Ferrari puts the brakes on mass email
Another company trying to cut down on internal email and encourage more face-to-face communication, via the Guardian: Italian manufacturer Ferrari is concerned that the indiscriminate use of emails