Digital yoga: Lululemon on digital practice
I confess that usually I hear "Lululemon" as part of a cutting social observation of life in Silicon Valley, in a sentence with "Range Rover" and "Scandinavian stroller."
“This, I think, is what email wants most people to feel: powerless.”
Following my post last night about the irony of "addicting" social media, I ran across this piece asking "Is email evil?" It poses the Kevin Kelly-like question, what
“the big problems with email are not just technical – they’re psychological”
BBC Future has a pretty decent "psychological self-defence course" to avoid email overload: Here’s a pretty safe assumption to make: you probably feel like you’re inundated with email,
Thought of the evening
If social media really is "addicting" (and I'm not entirely convinced that the term is correct) isn't it a strange sort of addiction where we are all each
From information fast to information fasts
Another variation of digital sabbaths, from the IdeaFestival blog: Technology Review's Jason Pontin suggested that while a wide range of interests is essential to connection-making, it can be
Smartphones and sleepless nights in Northern Ireland
Problems keeping technology in balance aren't specific to the United States, according to Northern Ireland business Web site Business First Online: While technology ownership in Ireland has seen
Why don’t I Like-A-Hug?
A few days ago I came across this project in The Guardian: MIT students have developed a wearable extension to your social media existence that translates every virtual
The business case for meditation
I'm often slightly irritated by essays on meditation that describe it as a kind of brain exercise-- a spiritual life hacking, like learning how to overclock your PC--
Back to contemplative computing, and the India Syndrome
I've been neglecting this blog terribly, but for a good reason: I just finished my first month in a new job. I'm now a senior consultant at Strategic
A Faraday cage-lined jacket
Okay, the title's not exactly correct, but still that's the basic idea for a jacket with a pocket that disables your cellphone antenna: Have you ever ruined a