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Taiwan: Internet overuse is as bad as “smoking, drinking, chewing betel nut and using drugs”

By |2025-04-21T01:30:31-07:00January 27th, 2015|Attention / Distraction, Contemplative computing, Technology|

Asian countries are the world's leading producers, and some of the most avid consumers, of electronics. So it's no surprise that kids in China, Korea, and Taiwan spend

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John Le Carré: “I am an absolute monk about my work”

By |2025-04-21T01:30:31-07:00January 23rd, 2015|Quotes, Routines, Writers|

Not long ago I went through a John Le Carré phase. Mainly thanks to the new Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie in which Gary Oldman plays George Smiley,  I read the

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J. G. Ballard on writing: “Two hours in the late morning, two in the early afternoon… [then] Scotch and soda, and oblivion”

By |2025-04-21T01:30:31-07:00January 17th, 2015|Quotes, Routines, Writers|

From the Paris Review interview with author J. G. Ballard: INTERVIEWER What are your daily working habits like? BALLARD Every day, five days a week. Longhand now, it’s

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