Surprising study: College students want quiet space, can’t find it
A new Gensler study* [pdf], discussed in Fast Co.exist (or however one should write that– the whole project is so typographically challenging the brand become impossible to find
Your challenge is accepted, Wall Street Journal
It's rather cheeky to title an article "Workplace Distractions: Here's Why You Won't Finish This Article," as the Wall Street Journal does with its recent piece on the
My Seattle POD talk in one drawing
Derek Bruff, director of Vanderbilt University's Center for Teaching and an attendee at the Seattle POD conference, has posted his "sketch notes" (an informal version of a graphic
Designing interfaces is designing users
About once a month I'll come across an article of book that makes me think, I really wish I'd met that person when I was in Cambridge. This
The solution to the problem of working in bed is NOT a wifi-enabled bed
The Wall Street Journal reports that researchers "who study work habits say a new generation reared on mobile devices is increasingly accustomed to using them while propped against
The Internet is the Problem
Saw this in a parking lot in Mountain View this afternoon. via flickr I don't believe it for a minute, but I was still amused to see it.Posted
Distraction Addiction Flickr set and slideshow
I thought it would be interesting to create a photo set that mixes images I use in my contemplative computing talks, with photos from Cambridge and my year
Ancient multitasking is older than we thought: Evidence from stone spear use and arrow manufacture
When I was at Cambridge (almost two years ago!), I stumbled on the work of cognitive archaeologists Lambros Malafouris and Colin Renfrew. Renfew is a professor at Cambridge
You damn kids get off my lawn, with your misinterpretations of neuroplasticity and media history!
I'm just getting around to Carl Wilkinson's recent Telegraph essay on writers "Shutting out a world of digital distraction." It's about how Zadie Smith, Nick Hornby and others
A Thomas Merton line I must use one day
In the opening paragraph of Mystics and Zen Masters, he contrasts "the monk or the Zen man" to "people dedicated to lives that are, shall we say, aggressively