“One of the Devil’s greatest tools is distraction”
Another piece from Christianity Today: Adam Stadtmiller's article on "leading distracted people:" The issue of ministering to an overwhelmed and distracted culture is one of the greatest challenges
“when I realize I’ve done too much e-mailing”
Sylvia Boorstein writes in Mindful (a new magazine that shows lots of promise) about e-mail: Every e-mail I receive from my friend and colleague Donald Rothberg starts with
“he spent a month offline… and he always described this month as the happiest of his life”
This morning I happened upon two different pieces about Aaron Swartz: Quinn Norton's very personal, hard to read piece about her role in the case; and Larissa MacFarquhar's
The perils of “everyday brain talk”
Vaughan Bell takes apart folk neuroscience in the Guardian. My favorite of the misconceptions he takes apart: Video games, TV violence, porn or any other social spectre of
This is what I’ll be like wearing Google Glass
This is brilliant. Via Creative Good, whose post about Google Glass I'll be writing about soon.
National Day of Unplugging coming up: or, see you Saturday night!
This time next year, I'm going to commemorate National Day of Unplugging by posting the chapter of my book that talks about Digital Sabbaths. (Be warned, Little Brown!) For
On the “slowness” of slow tech: Is it about specs, or about experience?
The first big talk I gave about contemplative computing was at a conference on technology whose theme was "Slow." Last night I revisited that ground: I spoke at
“My Little Pony or Porn Star? Technological Utopian Edition” is the best thing I’ll read today
Morgan Ames, who I interviewed for my book, has a new project: My Little Pony or Porn Star? Technological Utopian Edition. (I hadn't realized that Morgan wrote English
Today I am a man: I have a tiny computer strapped to my forehead
via venture beat Huh? Speaking at the TED Conference today in Long Beach, Calif., [Google co-founder Sergey] Brin told the audience that smartphones are "emasculating." Okay... “You’re actually
“Awakening is a team sport”
This is an interesting idea: the Life Retreat.