“we are ready to technologize boredom itself”
Yahoo! tech columnist Rob Walker takes a gentle prod at Bored and Brilliant: Finally! After decades of tech innovations aimed squarely at squishing boredom out of existence by
Hoffice and the 45-minute work burst
Fast Company has a piece about the Scandinavian Hoffice movement, which “aims to help freelancers find it easier to get things done, by transforming apartments and homes into
Remember to Breathe
The Bored and Brilliant people seem to be taking my suggestion about lock and home screens as nudges to heart: their Flickr account now includes this lock screen:
WNYC’s Bored and Brilliant challenge
WNYC’s Bored and Brilliant challenge starts today. What’s on the agenda? As you move from place to place, keep your phone in your pocket, out of your direct line of sight.
Bored and Brilliant: Day 1
WNYC’s Bored and Brilliant challenge starts today. What’s on the agenda? As you move from place to place, keep your phone in your pocket, out of your direct
Digital detox, Brazilian edition
Another country with a kids' digital detox camp: Brazil! "If at least we could take selfies in the bathroom, I wouldn't mind so much not having access to
Taiwan: Internet overuse is as bad as “smoking, drinking, chewing betel nut and using drugs”
Asian countries are the world's leading producers, and some of the most avid consumers, of electronics. So it's no surprise that kids in China, Korea, and Taiwan spend
John Le Carré: “I am an absolute monk about my work”
Not long ago I went through a John Le Carré phase. Mainly thanks to the new Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie in which Gary Oldman plays George Smiley, I read the
What “How people ignored each other before smartphones” gets wrong
This has been making the rounds on Twitter recently: See? People were ignoring each other with paper, and newspapers, and knitting! So why are you whiners complaining about
J. G. Ballard on writing: “Two hours in the late morning, two in the early afternoon… [then] Scotch and soda, and oblivion”
From the Paris Review interview with author J. G. Ballard: INTERVIEWER What are your daily working habits like? BALLARD Every day, five days a week. Longhand now, it’s