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
Pixels versus print? Follow this handy chart!
For my book I interviewed a number of people about how they chose books versus digital media. I found that for smart readers-- people who read a lot,
Don’t like your your phone “buzzing like a beehive with status updates”? Try it on your face!
This observation from The Verge's Ellis Hamburger: Let's face it: we're all pretty horrible at turning off push notifications on our smartphones. You install an app, give it
“If I keep this Internet crap up… I’ll lose roughly a novel and a half to my Internet distractions. That ain’t cute.”
Alex Mar talks about how the Internet is invading the writers' retreat, with predictable and lamentable results. Residencies have long been the writer’s last defense against the distractions
Sergey was right, they ARE emasculating! Smartphone-using men now pee sitting down
Cellphone use has made people forget how to walk in straight lines, walk more slowly, and of course become threats to public safety while driving. Last week, several
“One of the Devil’s greatest tools is distraction”
Another piece from Christianity Today: Adam Stadtmiller's article on "leading distracted people:" The issue of ministering to an overwhelmed and distracted culture is one of the greatest challenges
“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 perils of “everyday brain talk”
Vaughan Bell takes apart folk neuroscience in the Guardian. My favorite of the misconceptions he takes apart: Video games, TV violence, porn or any other social spectre of
This is what I’ll be like wearing Google Glass
This is brilliant. Via Creative Good, whose post about Google Glass I'll be writing about soon.
On the “slowness” of slow tech: Is it about specs, or about experience?
The first big talk I gave about contemplative computing was at a conference on technology whose theme was "Slow." Last night I revisited that ground: I spoke at