On productivity, speed, and normal life and work
Biz Tech Magazine's Ricky Ribeiro has one of those tech piece about technology driving our love of speed that sounds kind of upbeat, but actually is really depressing once
Philippe Starck: “I live with myself in front of my white page.”
What I love about this Philippe Starck interview is that it flies completely in the face of the modern idea that good ideas come out of endless networking,
How restrictive contracts turn electronics into prosthetics we can’t completely control
One of the points I make in the book is that one source of our dissatisfaction with smartphones and other personal electronics is that we instinctively want to
The airplane is “a good place to code”
"I’m surprised that that I like coding on flights," software engineer Sef Kloninger confesses. Despite the fact that plenty of people work on planes, the skies are generally
“A ‘free and frictionless’ method of communication had soft costs equivalent to procuring a small company Learjet”
Tom Cochran describes his office's email overload problem in a Harvard Business Review blog post: My job description does not include managing email flow. Yours probably doesn't, either.
Background noise generator: Rainy Cafe Machine
For some people, the familiar but not-too-loud background noise of spaces like cafes can help them focus. But what do you do when you're not in a cafe?
Against working on planes
Just a reminder that your mileage my vary, but: Business Week makes the case for why business travelers shouldn't work on planes: click for full-sized image I'm sure
“when I realize I’ve done too much e-mailing”
Sylvia Boorstein writes in Mindful (a new magazine that shows lots of promise) about e-mail: Every e-mail I receive from my friend and colleague Donald Rothberg starts with
“the way we compute is… changing the way we sit”
Steelcase recently conducted a global study of computing and posture, research meant to inform their next generation of office furniture. Their conclusion: As smartphones and tablets -- computers
Facebook “exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does”
I've been reading the page proofs for The Distraction Addiction, and should be done with it in a few days. As with any 250-page book, there are a