BBC Future has a pretty decent "psychological self-defence course" to avoid email overload: Here’s a pretty safe assumption to make: you probably feel like you’re inundated with email,
Another variation of digital sabbaths, from the IdeaFestival blog: Technology Review's Jason Pontin suggested that while a wide range of interests is essential to connection-making, it can be
I'm often slightly irritated by essays on meditation that describe it as a kind of brain exercise-- a spiritual life hacking, like learning how to overclock your PC--
A couple months ago I deleted Facebook and Twitter from my iPhone. I was going through a "get rid of digital clutter" phase, and had already taken myself
Jordan Weissmann at the Atlantic catches a new report on office work:There's a good chance you spend more than a quarter of each week reading and answering those
When I saw this article my jaw Hit. The. Floor. Skype calls to feature ads big enough to interrupt any conversation Skype to serve up personalized ads, hoping
One of the interesting things I discovered when writing the contemplative computing book is that several of the most popular pieces of Zenware were created not by software
From Rob Horning's essay in New Inquiry:The attack on unrecorded sociality, on its existance as an ephemeral, oral phenomenon, is an effort to subsume social behavior as a
UCI researchers Gloria Mark and Stephen Voida, and Army researcher Armand Cardello, conducted a study of email use in the workplace, and found what should surprise no one:
Via Big Think, I found this piece by Rob Horning of The New Inquiry on "Social Graph vs. Social Class." I'm not enough of an insider to be able