In defense of sexting
Writer Sarah Nicole Prickett on "Speaking in Tongues:" It is funny how many of the traditional newspaper writers who castigate “my” generation’s sexting as somehow stemming “real” flesh-and-blood
Social graph versus social class
Via Big Think, I found this piece by Rob Horning of The New Inquiry on "Social Graph vs. Social Class." I'm not enough of an insider to be able
Multitasking, always-on, and the pleasures of things that feel like work
Via Todd Gailun and former HP CTO Phil McKinney, I came across Leslie Perlow's short piece on how to "Overcome Your Work Addiction" today. Consider the following: Works
Sleeping with your Smartphone
Harvard Business School Press lists a new book by Leslie A. Perlow, coming out at the end of the month. Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the
Search Inside Yourself
Chade-Meng Tan's new book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) is just out, and it's gotten the kind of lengthy treatment in
Don’t reach there: Grabbing attention as faux paux
Tim McCormick points me to a Guardian article by Frank Speiser on "The science of social attention." (As as aside, let confess that I love the Guardian. I
Pang’s Zombie Apocalypse Memorization Test
One of the questions I've been working through in my book is this: how do you decide when it's okay to outsource a cognitive function? When is it
“heavy media multitaskers are not deficient in all kinds of cognitive tasks”
An interesting new study on multitasking and multi-sensory integration (behind a firewall): Heavy media multitaskers have been found to perform poorly in certain cognitive tasks involving task switching,
Second reflections on writing
A while ago I wrote a piece about writing for the trades. As someone who'd written for academic audiences, and for corporate and government clients, it was interesting
The draft is done
I spent this past week heads-down, finishing a new capstone chapter for the contemplative computing book, then going over the entire thing, trying to catch typos, even out