Stone Age multitasking, and how modern “multitasking” is really switch-tasking

By askpang|2025-04-21T01:30:42-07:00April 25th, 2011|Contemplative computing, Flow, Memory, Science|

multitasking, tools, cognitive archaeology, Stone Age, archaeology, cognition

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Robert Darnton on “a font of proverbial nonwisdom”

By askpang|2025-04-21T01:30:42-07:00April 21st, 2011|History of Science / STS|

Robert Darnton challenges "five myths about the information age" that, taken together, "constitute a font of proverbial nonwisdom." "The book is dead." Wrong: More books are produced in

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“All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark”

By askpang|2025-04-21T01:30:42-07:00April 21st, 2011|Contemplative computing, Quotes, Science|

attention, distraction, mindfulness, multitasking, tools

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Great Clifford Nass interview on multitasking

By askpang|2025-04-21T01:30:42-07:00April 20th, 2011|Contemplative computing, Science|

attention, psychology, multitasking, distraction

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Futures 2.0 wins oustanding paper award!

By askpang|2025-04-21T01:30:42-07:00April 19th, 2011|Writing|

I just heard that my "Futures 2.0" article has been recognized with an outstanding paper award: Every year Emerald invites each journal’s Editorial Team to nominate what they

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Ironically I’ll be posting about effortful thinking research on Twitter and Facebook

By askpang|2025-04-21T01:30:42-07:00April 19th, 2011|Contemplative computing, Social media, Technology|

psychology, social media, Facebook, need for cognition

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“Luke- you’ve switched off your targeting computer.”

By askpang|2025-04-21T01:30:42-07:00April 18th, 2011|Attention / Distraction|

This XKCD cartoon will have to be part of the book.

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Last night in Cambridge

By askpang|2025-04-21T01:30:42-07:00April 8th, 2011|Contemplative computing, Travel, UK|

On our last night in Cambridge, my son and I took a long walk through Jesus Green and the colleges. the cam beside jesus green, via flickr On

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Less than 48 hours in Cambridge

By askpang|2025-04-21T01:30:42-07:00April 7th, 2011|Travel, UK|

Took the kids to London again yesterday, and went to the Science Museum. Naturally I gravitated to the airplane display, which includes a beautifully-stages collection of engines, and

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Susan Blackmore on leaving academia

By askpang|2025-04-21T01:30:42-07:00April 5th, 2011|Postacademic, Quotes|

This echoes feelings I've had, and I've heard plenty of other people express: I have given up my secure academic job as Reader at the University of the

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