David Pecotic flagged this New York Times piece about the "backlash against mindfulness," which mainly is a backlash among Buddhists against the corporatization of mindfulness, rather than a
San Francisco-based Minna Life has a Kickstarter campaign for, not exactly a wearable device (I don't think), but certainly one that takes exercise and self-monitoring to new places: kGoal,
On Tech Crunch, a rather sensible rant against taking pictures of fireworks. You’re never going to look at those firework photos or videos anyway. The courteous, pity-likes you
…the problem of “jewelry that doesn’t make noise when something in your digital life” has just been disrupted by the perfectly-named Ringly, a Brooklyn company founded by eBay
Novelist Ted Thompson has a good interview in Salon about the writing business. Well worth reading.
Forgive me if I've referenced this before, but I find this new Wellcome Collection project too interesting: The urge to be busy defines modern life. Rest can seem
There’s a famous quote by Albert Einstein that “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.” I’d heard it a number of times,
Two recent articles talk about the complexity of boredom. In The Telegraph (as well as the New Zealand Herald), Kate Bussman notes the relationship between boredom and creativity. Boredom is something
David Auerbach writes in Slate about “coder’s high,” an “intense feeling of absorption exclusive to programmers:" [O]ne of the things I miss about programming is the coder’s high:
High-frequency trading has long stood as a great example of how the physicality of computing really matters, contrary to companies’ breezy declarations that everything is in The Cloud.