“Our challenge is to build that wisdom into our next generations of contemplative technology”
I’m deep in revisions of the next book and am not taking the time to write at length about anything else, but I wanted to flag this Vincent
Mind-wandering and Edge of Tomorrow
One of my favorite movies is the under-appreciated Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt movie Edge of Tomorrow, in which Cruise has to relive a disastrous battle hundreds of
Addiction, cellphone use, and depression
As someone who wrote a book called The Distraction Addiction, this new study by University of Illinois researchers Alejandro Lleras and Tayana Panova caught my eye: Is cellphone use detrimental
On creative lives and the art of saying “no”
One of the striking things I noticed when writing REST was how often the people I was studying said no to things, arranged their lives to smoothy avoid
Shirley Jackson on the magic of writing
From Shirley Jackson's essay "How I Write," publishing recently in the collection Let Me Tell You: Once, however, when I had spent all one rainy day wrestling with
Exercise and the brains of tiny, buff rats
One of the most striking things I found when writing Rest was how many of the intellectuals, writers, scientists and mathematicians I was studying were serious athletes. Many
My CSCW ’16 talk on focus, mind-wandering, and connectivity
[This is a transcript, slightly cleaned up, of a talk I gave earlier today at CSCW 2016. I was asked by Gloria Mark to join a panel on
Judy Wacjman on technology and time pressure
There’s a great interview with LSE sociologist Judy Wajcman about her latest book, Pressed for Time: I have been skeptical about the story that acceleration is a purely
Americans “equate happiness with high intensity,” and we always have
Emma Seppala, whose new book The Happiness Something Or Other came out this week, is doing an admirable job of hitting the airwaves to promote the book. (I
The Bernice Eiduson longitudinal study of scientists and STEM subject snobbery
The Guardian has a piece by 16 year-old Orli Vogt-Vincent about “STEM subject snobbery,” and how the emphasis on science, technology, education and maths* leads us to both underfund