My sage advice to parents about technology and kids
From a piece about the book and its lessons for parenting and technology in the Huffington Post: “I think it’s every bit as legitimate as going outside and
“The Distraction Addiction offers me topics for dinner conversation I can look forward to without dread.”
One of the unpredictable things about writing and publishing books is that you rarely know who else is writing books that'll come out the same season as yours.
“In a world of… information all over you, spending 20 minutes purposefully not thinking of anything is a wonderful thing”
The Financial Times recently had an article about meditation in finance: Backed by clinical trials and married with neuroscience, the idea that meditation can help anyone find a
Are you an Internet addict? Take this quiz!
The Guardian has a quiz to test if you're an Internet addict. For the record, I'm not (really, I'm a recovering one). It has been reported that the
Smartphones will connect urbanites, unless they’re getting shot on Muni
Two contrasting pieces in the news recently. First, an Atlantic piece about a recent CityLab meeting: Does mobile technology give people an excuse to isolate themselves, or is
“we’re letting the Internet and its many diversions control us, rather than the other way around”
I'm late posting about this, but Jessica Grose has a good piece about The Distraction Addiction on the Fast Company Co.Create Web site. She starts by talking about
Tech Nation interview
A couple weeks ago I went up to KQED's San Francisco studio to do an interview with Tech Nation's Moira Gunn. With a little diligence you can now
CanFocus and push-button concentration
I recently found out about a Canadian company, CanFocus, and their in-development product, MyFocus. You might think of it as a neutron bomb for digital distractions: it's a
Another post on the neuroscience of walking
I wrote about this research a few months ago, but Salon has an article on some really interesting research done in Edinburgh on the effects of walking on
Reading at Book Passage, San Francisco, this Wednesday at 6 pm
You hardly need to read on, but here's the official announcement. The Book Passage is located at the Ferry Building, and is a fabulous space. It'll be a