This 2012 presentation on digital detoxes, Zenware, and other efforts to buy escapes from distraction by Kasi Bruno, Director of Strategy and Cultural Insight at Young & Rubicam
O Globo, one of the major Brazilian newspapers, recently had a piece about The Distraction Addiction. It's in Portuguese, obviously, but still.... Um dos truísmos do nosso tempo
Somehow I managed not to flag this article about "How the Internet, Social Media and Smartphones are Dividing and Conquering Our Consciousness" in the October issue of Elle
This weekend I read Laurence Freeman’s lovely short book, Pearl of Great Price. The book takes a couple hours to get through, and it’s available as a free
This looks like a really interesting project, from fellow Penn history of science product Josh Berson: Somatic Niche ConstructionDramatic changes are unfolding in the shape of inhabited space,
The first translation rights for The Distraction Addiction were sold (at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which coincidentally is going on right now) to a Dutch publisher. This was
I've followed digital sabbaths and cellphone-free vacations for a while, but everybody else can give it up now: Peter Higgs wins. The media spotlight has often been too
The Atlantic reports on a recent study in the "Journal of Consumer Psychology [that] suggests that spending time focusing on images of food makes the food itself less
From Zanni Louise's "Why Smartphones Don't Make You Happy:" It’s true, smartphones are numbing. I sit at the edge of sadness, never truly going there because someone’s pretty
Even though it's several years old, I highly recommend this Financial Times profile of Laurence Freeman, founder of the World Community for Christian Meditation, and his effort to