Alfred Russel Wallace was a Victorian naturalist and collector, best-known today for coming up with a version of the theory of evolution by natural selection, and sending it
Another new article of mine, this time in the Penn Gazette, which happens to be my alumni magazine. I really like the 1970s cybernetic thing going on in
A few weeks ago I was interviewed by London-based writer and entrepreneur Lawrence Ampofo for his Digital Mindfulness podcast. The piece is now live. In addition to listening
Steve Kovach, a writer for Business Insider, talks about his recent week away from email. He disabled Twitter and email notifications on his phone for a week, then
James Hamblin talks to Manoush Zomorodi about boredom and creativity. It's whimsical, but still, nicely done.
One of the best descriptions of mind-wandering, by Oliver Wendell Holmes: Many times, when I have got upon the cars, expecting to be magnetized into an hour or
One of the first countries to buy rights to Rest: How Working Less Gets More Done was Japan, and with good reason: Japan is notorious for a workforce
Today’s bit of thoughtful humor, from The Oatmeal. As always, some bad words, so NSFW. I especially like the comparison of texts and email.
In the Guardian, Viv Groskop confesses that “I’m a bit of a wexter:" We all have bad habits, and now there’s an appropriately nasty word for mine: wexting (using
Tuesday’s Bored and Brilliant challenge is an interesting one for me, because I agree with it, with some strong reservations. Here it is: Your instructions: See the world