In defense of sexting
Writer Sarah Nicole Prickett on "Speaking in Tongues:" It is funny how many of the traditional newspaper writers who castigate “my” generation’s sexting as somehow stemming “real” flesh-and-blood
Social graph versus social class
Via Big Think, I found this piece by Rob Horning of The New Inquiry on "Social Graph vs. Social Class." I'm not enough of an insider to be able
Multitasking, always-on, and the pleasures of things that feel like work
Via Todd Gailun and former HP CTO Phil McKinney, I came across Leslie Perlow's short piece on how to "Overcome Your Work Addiction" today. Consider the following: Works
Sleeping with your Smartphone
Harvard Business School Press lists a new book by Leslie A. Perlow, coming out at the end of the month. Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the
Search Inside Yourself
Chade-Meng Tan's new book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) is just out, and it's gotten the kind of lengthy treatment in
Pang’s Zombie Apocalypse Memorization Test
One of the questions I've been working through in my book is this: how do you decide when it's okay to outsource a cognitive function? When is it
“heavy media multitaskers are not deficient in all kinds of cognitive tasks”
An interesting new study on multitasking and multi-sensory integration (behind a firewall): Heavy media multitaskers have been found to perform poorly in certain cognitive tasks involving task switching,
Second reflections on writing
A while ago I wrote a piece about writing for the trades. As someone who'd written for academic audiences, and for corporate and government clients, it was interesting
The draft is done
I spent this past week heads-down, finishing a new capstone chapter for the contemplative computing book, then going over the entire thing, trying to catch typos, even out
“although there are many persons” in the term social media, “there is nothing personal about it”
Forbes has a good interview with Quiet Place creator Amitay Tweeto. Amitay has a nice shout-out to my project, but mainly I want to call attention to some