A handy guide to cellphone etiquette around the world
Via Little Brown's Tumblr, this guide from RepairLabs about cellphone etiquette (click on the image for a bigger version):
“it is our ability to make and use tools that makes us human”
Kent State professor and regular Cleveland Plain-Dealer contributor William Kist has one of the best reviews of The Distraction Addiction that I've read so far: Pang, a “professional
“I can imagine Keanu Reeves in the film version”
That's the verdict of New York Times writer Dwight Garner: Mr. Pang, the author of The Distraction Addiction, is a futurist who has been a visiting scholar at
“Actively ignoring everything that I didn’t think was important enough to distract me felt (and feels) great”
Evan Solomon, an engineer at Medium, describes his efforts to "ignore all distractions from my phone when I’m with other people:" There’s an expanding set of distractions in most
Weekend reviews: SF Chronicle, Tech Crunch, and the Washington Post
The weekend before a book comes out is always a big time for reviews: newspapers like to get their reviews out before the book appears (it's not news
The Distraction Addiction propaganda posters
Yesterday Little Brown released the third and last of the propaganda posters. Here are the other two: Interesting aside: if the retweets of the posters are a reliable
Welcome to Contemplative Computing
Contemplative computing is about learning to use information technologies in ways that help you be more focused and mindful, and protect you from being perpetually distracted. This 2011
Seven more days!
I know I sound like a broken record, but it's now just one week until my book The Distraction Addiction is available in stores and online. The feedback
Distraction and mental illness: Can the former cause the latter?
Could there a link between distraction and mental illness? Certainly a full day of nonstop stimulation and switch-tasking– ringing phones, dealing with customers, responding to little kids, etc.–
“unplugging completely was something she wanted from me for her birthday”
This Huff Po piece on politicians staying connected when going on vacation has this vivid anecdote: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said her daughter is turning 10 on