Habituation, attention, and distraction
We often regard a failure of focus as a failure of will, or a moral failure. But there’s also a physical and physiological foundation to our capacity to
Where I Write: Authors show that all writing spaces are pretty similar
This evening while trying to figure out what in the world Periscope is and whether I should use it to promote REST, I came across Where I Write
“College students who are addicted to the Internet report positive and negative effects on their family relationships”
Georgia State University researcher Susan Snyder is studying the impact of Internet addiction (or PIU, Problematic Internet Use, described as >25 hours/week of non-school or -work use) on family
“the power of resting”
This is one of my favorite quotes: The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness. (J. R. Seeley,
“Thank you for being late”
Almost exactly a year ago, Tom Friedman was at Davos and wrapped up his talk with this: The Arab Spring is failing not for lack of bandwidth, but
Smartphones, FOMO, and why email is the Ted Cruz of the tech world
One of the common threads running between Rest and my previous book The Distraction Addiction is that both encourage readers to see themselves as able to resist the
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