Pre-order The Distraction Addiction!
My book is now available to pre-order on Amazon. Amazing. via flickr It's been about two and half years since I first wrote the words "contemplative computing" (or
Google is a search engine, not a Free Will Destruction Machine
The Memory Network has published a new essay by Nick Carr on computer versus human memory. This is a subject I've followed with great interest, and when I
A forgotten piece of the book: an essay on Digital Panglosses versus Digital Cassandras
Chad Wellmon has a smart essay in The Hedgehog Review arguing that “Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart.” Our compulsive talk about information overload can isolate and abstract
The downside of flow: Machine gambling
I’m a big fan of the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: his book Flow is one of the most important thing I’ve read in the last ten years, and one of
Skiing isn’t exciting enough? Add email and phone calls!
For those of you who don't like to get away when you're getting away: It is the gadget that every workaholic will be clamouring for – a pair
In Seattle
I was in Seattle this weekend at the POD Network conference, a conference of academic technology and professional development types. I've not been in Seattle in a while,
Slow… everything… at the RSA
A couple years ago I got (improbably) an invitation to join the RSA, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. (An acquaintance of mine had just
A whole conference about email
I can't go, as I've got to get things together for my Seattle talk and have a day job, but this conference on email actually looks quite good,
Yet more advice
A couple pieces from the Harvard Business Review blog: Tony Schwartz on battling your online addiction; David Rock on thinking deeply at work.
I didn’t know we’d changed the name of Silicon Valley, but it works
Don't think I ever took note of this San Jose Mercury News piece from earlier this year: In the heart of the Valley of Digital Distractions, mindfulness is