Tom Cochran describes his office's email overload problem in a Harvard Business Review blog post: My job description does not include managing email flow. Yours probably doesn't, either.
It doesn't actually exist yet, but it's only a matter of time. Following her recent article about the potential neurological dangers of the newly announced "Facebook phone", it's
This is interesting: Flow Genome Project is a trans-disciplinary, international organization committed to mapping the genome of Flow by 2020 and open sourcing it to everyone. I'm not really sure what
Add this (via Maria Popova) to my list of books to read: George Prochnik's In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise. Popova quotes this
Karen Armstrong reviews Diarmaid MacCulloch's Silence: A Christian History: In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological
One of my favorite places in the world is Edinburgh. I first went there in graduate school, and spend several days at the Royal Observatory, and several nights
One of the decisions I made when writing my book was that I wouldn't attack the work of people who've written about digital distraction, even when I disagreed
In addition to having cool tattoos and a great book on ubiquitous computing, Adam points me to a couple other awesome ambient sound sites: You are listening to,
For some people, the familiar but not-too-loud background noise of spaces like cafes can help them focus. But what do you do when you're not in a cafe?
So says the Daily Mail, though I don't guarantee that this is not an April Fools' Day joke: [T]he digitisation of childhood appears to be leading to changes