BBC correspondent Finlo Rohrer has a nice piece about the importance of “purposeless walking” to creative people in the BBC News Magazine-- the kinds of walks that aren’t meant
I’ve long been interested in the relationship between walking and creative thinking. the sandwalk I devoted a chapter of The Distraction Addiction to walking and restorative activities, particularly
So far, my discussion about the mindful iPhone has focused on things you can do to your phone to make it less distracting, better able to distinguish between
Another feature that turns your iPhone into a filter between you and the world is Do Not Disturb. When you activate Do Not Disturb (DND), incoming calls, texts,
One of my favorite illustrations of the physical nature of our relationship with smartphones, and of the ways that relationship can go awry, is the phenomenon of phantom
Sharon Begley has a piece in Mindful about mirror neurons, and how it turns out we’re not really sure that humans have them after all, mainly because "the
Tony Haile, the CEO of Chartbeat, has an important piece in Time magazine on the rise, and one hopes fall, of Web design and business efforts that focus
The Edhasa blog has published the second installment of my piece on design, defaults, and mindless behavior, based on The Distraction Addiction. Nothing I haven't said before, but
In the last several posts, we saw how to adjust ringtones, text tones, and email alert tones. The idea was twofold: to give your phone a more wide-ranging
From The Oatmeal. A reminder that spending time offline is no longer just for people with bumper stickers on their Prius that say "This car stops for satori."