Chess and mental exhaustion
This afternoon, I ran across this bit in Thomas Kuhn’s interview with Werner Heisenberg: [Arnold] Sommerfeld would always have very definite opinions as to what people should do
Quote of the day: William Gibson
"It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future." (From his Paris Review interview.)
“Students will tweet for help… and expect an immediate response”
When I was working on my dissertation I spent a week at Exeter University. It’s a lovely place, I think-- I really saw nothing other than the library,
Amazon, Hachette, and my book
Jeremy Greenfield has a good piece in The Atlantic about how the fight between Amazon and Hachette (the publishing conglomerate that owns Little, Brown, which published The Distraction
“Loneliness in old age doesn’t occur just because older people haven’t learned to use the internet”
The Guardian reports on a recent report from the “centre-right Policy Exchange think tank… [that] recommends £875m should be spent on training the 6.2 million mainly elderly people
“Ça reste un livre très amusant à lire”
My book is reviewed on French literary Web site Books and Me: Le livre enfonce aussi beaucoup de portes ouvertes. Ces analogies et ces exemples sont vraiment amusants
“Video games are all about making choices, right?”
Ars Technica has a piece about the political affiliations of gamers. According to two polls sponsored by Reason magazine and “conducted in December 2013 and April 2014, gamers
How can we “help the Internet connect us to others in a more meaningful way?”
A few days ago, Zócalo Public Square asked me for a short answer to the question, "What do we need to do to help the Internet connect us
“any technological device can only help you if you use it properly”
The latest of Scott Meyer’s Basic Instructions is great: [h/t to Balloon Juice]
“most companies have no clear understanding of how their leaders and employees are spending their collective time”
Harvard Business Review has a long piece by several Bain & Co. consultants on how much time organizations waste through email, meetings, etc. TL;DR version: it’s a lot,