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
Don’t reach there: Grabbing attention as faux paux
Tim McCormick points me to a Guardian article by Frank Speiser on "The science of social attention." (As as aside, let confess that I love the Guardian. I
“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,
Did Meditating Make Us Human?
This article by Southern Louisiana U. professor Matt Rossano, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal in 2007, has an awesome premise: Imagine you travelled back in time 100,000
So much for arguments against multitasking
Looks like Google Chrome's new multitasking mode solves them!
Tim McCormick on “Healthier Information”
Too busy to write anything substantive, so I'll just point you to Tim McCormick's fine presentation on "Healthier Information," which I plan to work into the book. Healthier
On distractions as a keyword
I've been mapping the various ways we use the term distraction. In my Taming the Digital Monkey, whose first draft astonishingly is drawing to its conclusion, I talk
How do you choose print versus digital versions of books?
I'm gathering some information about how people make the choice to read digital versus printed versions of books, newspapers, and the like. What I'm trying to do is
“The trick isn’t to unplug from our devices- it’s to unplug from the distractions, information overload, and trash that make us unhappy”
Alexandra Samuel has a very nice piece in The Atlantic that uses the digital Sabbath urge-- her treatment's not as systematic as other recent pieces about the movement,
Who holds the keys to weapons of mass distraction?
From Jesse Fox's Church of Facebook: I often complain about life’s little distractions; things like Facebook and a too-long to-do list and too many people to keep up