Meditation apps and the cost of experience
I've been looking recently at meditation apps, and have been struck by a few things. First of all, there are a LOT of them, many more than I
Book cover!
Here's the cover for the contemplative computing book:via flickrLittle, Brown spent a lot of time on it, and I think they've managed to communicate a lot in a
Book cover!
Here's the cover for the contemplative computing book:via flickrLittle, Brown spent a lot of time on it, and I think they've managed to communicate a lot in a
“The average American first checks their phone around 7:09 a.m.”
Some scary statistics from a new survey by mobile device company Good.68 percent of people check their work emails before 8 a.m.The average American first checks their phone
“we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs”
From the conclusion of Bertrand Russell's 1948 BBC Reith Lectures on "Authority and the Individual" (mp3, or transcript):We know too much and feel too little. At least we
Reconnecting.calm
I came across Tom Mahon's name when I was working on the digital Sabbath chapter of my book. In the 1990s, Tom was one of the first advocates
The Slow Media manifesto
I just came across this Slow Media manifesto, written in 2010:The first decade of the 21st century, the so-called ‘naughties’, has brought profound changes to the technological foundations
What would a Tibetan Book of Dead Computers say?
[I should preface this by confessing that 99% of what I know about the Tibetan Book of the Dead comes from the wild movie Enter the Void, a
“You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave”
Washington Post has an interesting profile of Katherine Losse, the author of a new inside look at Facebook.Not long after Katherine Losse left her Silicon Valley career and
We may have free will after all: Reinterpreting the readiness potential
From the New Scientist: A 30-year-old classic experiment that is often used to argue against free will might have been misinterpreted. In the early 1980s, Benjamin Libet at