Honolulu fights ‘smartphone zombies’
Just enjoy the sunset! The city of Honolulu has passed a law that "targets 'smartphone zombies'," people crossing the street while using their smartphones and not looking where
Do spiders have extended minds?
For years I've been fascinated by the "extended minds" thesis, the claim that we should regard our minds not as confined to our brains, but including brains, bodies
Imported contemplative computing posts
Clowns of Cambridge, where I first started thinking about rest while working on contemplative computing I spent a little time this morning and imported posts from my contemplative
Keep Me Posted
I recently got a message about the new Web comedy Keep Me Posted: Keep Me Posted Teaser from Hillary Nussbaum on Vimeo. As the Seed And Spark fundraiser
On the experience of shopping a book proposal
Following my piece on agents and why you want one, a brief note on shopping a proposal. Rejection is inevitable. You know those stories about how Catcher in
Why you, first-time author, need a literary agent
I had a long call today with a friend who’s just finished a book and wanted some advice about literary agents. I’ve gotten this question a couple times,
“The police, army and refugees could agree” that they “all dreaded a day without internet”
This is a heck of a story: Kevin MacRitchie surveyed the inferno spreading across Diavata refugee camp. From his vantage point on the roof, where he had been
Chocolate and “likes” activate the same parts of the teenage brain
The same brain circuits that are activated by eating chocolate and winning money are activated when teenagers see large numbers of "likes" on their own photos or the
Greyscale your smartphone screen to make it less compelling
I hadn’t heard of this idea until this Atlantic video from James Hamblin:
Is attention a resource or a relationship?
Tom Chatfield’s short essay, "The attention economy,” raises an interesting question: why do we think of attention as a resource? For all the sophistication of a world in