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
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 forgotten piece of the book: an essay on Digital Panglosses versus Digital Cassandras
Chad Wellmon has a smart essay in The Hedgehog Review arguing that “Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart.” Our compulsive talk about information overload can isolate and abstract
The downside of flow: Machine gambling
I’m a big fan of the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: his book Flow is one of the most important thing I’ve read in the last ten years, and one of
Skiing isn’t exciting enough? Add email and phone calls!
For those of you who don't like to get away when you're getting away: It is the gadget that every workaholic will be clamouring for – a pair
Yet more advice
A couple pieces from the Harvard Business Review blog: Tony Schwartz on battling your online addiction; David Rock on thinking deeply at work.
From information fast to information fasts
Another variation of digital sabbaths, from the IdeaFestival blog: Technology Review's Jason Pontin suggested that while a wide range of interests is essential to connection-making, it can be
Smartphones and sleepless nights in Northern Ireland
Problems keeping technology in balance aren't specific to the United States, according to Northern Ireland business Web site Business First Online: While technology ownership in Ireland has seen