Little practices, big results: Nudges toward greater mindfulness
I've been noticing recently a number of people designing experiments or challenges that help them back away from constant, intrusive use of information technology, and help them find
Data-points on digital distraction: Dilbert and Daniel Pink
Two quick things: This Sunday's Dilbert: And this tweet from Daniel Pink: MT @tirosenberg: The Pope goes on Twitter, and a few months later loses all interest in
“Don’t Live Your Life, Lead It”
Once again the Harvard Business Review blog picks up on an idea I talk about in my book. Yesterday I mentioned Tony Schwartz's writing on vacations and productivity; today,
Restoration, thinking paths and obliquity
Tony Schwartz has a piece in the New York Times about rest and productivity. His big point is a classic example of obliquity: that while we assume that
My new camera and Last Great Things
Yesterday I bought a new camera, a Fujifilm X-E1. I've been coveting it since it was announced: it looks like the rangefinder cameras my dad had when we
Another sign that technology has gone too far: The iPotty.
Okay, I know it looks like something from a cross between the Brookstone catalog and The Onion, but it's real: the CTA Digital 2-in-1 iPotty with Activity Seat
The panoptic Gaze was never so stylish: Felipe Luchi’s digital device prisons
Brazilian creative director Felipe Luchi created these great jailhouse pictures for Outside. As Gizmodo comments, It's the perfect definition of this digital life. We are prisoners of our phones and
“the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal”
From Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, 104-105: Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what
Excerpt from talk at Hachette Book Group
Hachette has put a bit of my December talk online:
Knitting as commentary: the work on Becky Stern
Becky Stern works on wearable electronics at Adafruit Industries, maker of DIY electronics kits. She's also the creator of some intriguing, somewhat disturbing knitted sweaters that connect your