Creating the feeling of connectedness
Add to the arguments about whether social media is "really" social or not: this new study by University of Berlin's Fenne große Deters and Arizona State's Matthias R. Mehl,
We have always been cyborgs, example 2,386
Another example of how humans have coevolved with our tools: Until around 250 years ago in the West, archaeological evidence suggests that most human beings had an edge-to-edge
“denial of the health and wellbeing impact of our… constant connection… is equivalent to climate change denial”
I'm not sure I quite agree with this idea from the RSA, but I kind of like it. [A] trusted source with neuroscientific expertise, who has thought deeply
Reviewing copy edits
Me and Davis this evening. via Flickr Posted with Blogsy
Copy edits!
Just got these in the mail…. via flickr Very exciting, in the way that only a vanishingly small number of grinding, attention-demanding tasks can be.
The next stage of the book
I got copyedits of my book today. I made the mistake of hitting some button that provided me with a summary of all the changes, and in a
Another commodification of contemplation data-point: Meditation fashion
Thank you, New York TImes: Meditation may be centered on a rejection of the material, but several savvy brands are aware that some material is essential, unless the
“Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself”
Writing for BBC News, Damon Young warns against seeing distraction as a modern problem: Over a century ago, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche described his harassed peers. "One thinks with
people who are “‘spiritual but not religious’ are more likely to suffer poor mental health”
When I was interviewing people who take digital Sabbaths, one of the ways they often described themselves was as spiritual, but not particularly religious. I puzzled over this
“to be distracted is to be torn away from what is worthwhile in life”
I just came across a 2008 book, Distraction: A Philosopher's Guide to Being Free, by Melbourne-based philosopher and writer Damon Young. Young seems to be a kind of