Disconnected days in New York
Last week, I took a few days off and took my son to New York City. (I had a workshop in DC, and needed to meet my publisher
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
Another unplugged thing: Unplugged weddings
The one good thing that's come of my paying any attention to Sean Parker's post-wedding social media tempest is that, via New York Magazine, I found out about
“‘Information overload’ once referred to the difficulty of absorbing intelligently the data produced by others”
Gregg Zachary has a short, Proustian think-piece on the "remembrance of everything past" in IEEE Spectrum: “Information overload” once referred to the difficulty of absorbing intelligently the data
Hands Free Mama
Not really much to say about this blog, just want to note its existence: I want the noise of my life to be a mixture of laughter and
Why do we “check” our email? What happens if we call it something else?
Jonathan Rowson at the RSA, who goes on my very long list of people I'd like to one day meet in person when I'm in London, muses over
Shockingly, best practices in mobile app push strategies don’t think much about the user’s attention
Last night I talked about why I was cautiously optimistic that wearable computing wouldn't devolve into the Kurt Vonnegut short story "Harrison Bergeron." After reading this HBR piece
“Seeing the megarich take the stage to trumpet” the Buddha’s “practices is a bit jarring:” contemplative practice in Silicon Valley
Wired has a long piece about mindfulness in Silicon Valley, and its rather… complicated relationship between contemplative practice as religious practice, contemplative practice as form of self-optimization, and
Self-driving cars, self-discipline, and the perils of automation
I know I just wrote about the AAA study on cognitive load and distracted driving, but Liz Gannes on All Things D (which has a brilliant editor) has
Kirkus Reviews talks about “The Distraction Addiction” in its latest issue
For decades Kirkus Reviews has been one of the more important venues for book reviews, and one of the more feared. As the New York Times reported in