“email is the biggest killer of my productivity”
A couple months ago I deleted Facebook and Twitter from my iPhone. I was going through a "get rid of digital clutter" phase, and had already taken myself
Shiny happy people going offline
Jenna Wortham follows up her piece on unplugging with a post on a response she found interesting: Nathan Jurgenson's argument "against fetishizing the offline and becoming obsessed —
On tweeting during concerts, and the purpose of criticism
San Jose Mercury News music critic Richard Scheinin has a piece about tweeting during concerts:Earlier this month, I attended a concert by jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who is
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
Texting drivers “could travel the length of a football field without looking at the street”
A recent study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found thatpeople who were texting while driving were 23 times more likely to crash or nearly crash than non-distracted
“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
Texting while fighting
C. J. Chivers, author of a great book about the AK-47, is in Syria, and got this picture:Machine gun in right hand. Cell phone in left. On duty
Bertrand Russell on the “fatal… habit of thinking of the ‘next thing'”
I've been listening to the BBC Reith Lectures while walking the dog, and this bit from Bertrand Russell's 1948 series on "Authority and the Individual" (mp3, or transcript)
Augmented reality, old school: glasses that make women fuzzy?
Via Jezebel, the Times of Israel reports on one of the more interesting examples of augmented reality I've seen in a while: the Committee for Purity in the
Abigail Sellen on lifelogging
Just came across an interview on CBC Spark with my former Microsoft Research colleague Abigail Sellen. She talks about lifelogging and what's wrong with the idea of total