Father’s Day
This year, after dealing with my daughter's graduation, two different traffic accidents (our car was hit by another last Monday, and a couple weeks before that my wife
Distraction, voice recognition, and driving
Think that Siri or a handsfree set makes it safe for you to send texts and do email in the car? (While the car is moving, not a
“it’s a spiritual problem when we send out 150 tweets every hour and a half”
Richard Foster, in an interview with Shane Blackshear: The deepest discipline on the American scene today is silence, because we are absolutely consumed with insane babble.... I've made
Alarms
In graduate school I had a semester when I had a lot of trouble waking up for a 9 AM seminar. I really liked my history of modern
Curation versus reflection
Janet Kornblum (who I mentioned in a previous post) has a reflection on "Curating life (or not) from a hospital bed," prompted by a hospital stay and the
“some people on the cutting edge of tech are trying their best to push it back a few feet”
Nick Bilton, who like me seems to go everywhere with a really nice camera (you don’t this kind of bokeh from a smartphone camera), has a couple recent
Designing for delight should be the first step toward designing for humans
Do you feel happier using your smartphone? Get a dopamine hit from balancing your books? That’s because Silicon Valley has embraced “delight.” Los Angeles Times tech writer Chris
New post on Medium
A little while ago I got an invitation to contribute to Medium, and decided to try it out this morning. I posted there an essay on Nigel Thrift’s
Playing Russian Roulette with your Facebook account
”Everyone talks about deleting their Facebook account, but we rarely take action," Social Roulette co-creator Kyle McDonald says. "Sometimes we need a simple game to help take the
Damon Young on cyborgs and freedom
While reading Damon Young's 2008 book Distraction-- which I highly recommend-- I came across this nice bit about technology, freedom, and responsibility. He first makes the case that