Tomorrow on CBC’s Spark: Addiction By Design
Nora Young’s Spark will run a program on “Addiction by Design” tomorrow, featuring interviews with Natasha Dow Schull (who has written some great stuff about the design of video
“he was a powerful, privileged white male SUPER HERO of American journalism and he could whatever he damn well wanted to do”
Voice of America correspondent Rachel Jones has a great piece (in LinkedIn, which against many odds is turning into kind of an interesting outlet) about “How Ben Bradlee's
Korean edition of the book
Another fabulous cover, this time for the Korean edition of The Distraction Addiction (published by Sigongsa): I haven't had a bad one yet, even though the Dutch, Spanish, and
“they don’t see the strictures as demanding – they see them as liberating”
Guardian contributor Joanna Moorhead has a terrific piece about her Carmelite nun aunt. I was studying journalism in Cardiff, not far from the convent and when we were
Dan Ariely and fighting the “thieves of our time, thieves of our attention, thieves of our productivity”
Business Insider’s Eric Barker has a nice profile of Dan Ariely’s recent work on productivity and time management. For those of you who aren’t familiar with his books,
“For children like Gus… Siri is a nonjudgmental friend and teacher”
Judith Newman has a terrific, touching article in the New York Times about her son’s relationship with Siri: Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as
“When you buy a Smart Thing, you get locked into its software ecosystem… whether you like it or not.”
Jon Evans has a short but well-done piece about “The Internet Of Someone Else’s Things,” in which he argues that the Internet of Things will subtly redefine ownership
“He found that he almost ‘craved’ using the device:” on reports of Google Glass addiction
You might have seen articles recently on a case of a man with Google Glass addiction. It’s been written about in the Guardian, BBC, Fast Company, io9, and
Chinese edition of The Distraction Addiction
The Chinese edition of The Distraction Addiction is out! You can order your copies from Locus Publishing, my Taiwanese publisher. There's also this cool promotional video: Taiwan's Commonwealth
When our ancestors became “human:” New evidence
Archaeologists trying to establish when our ancestors developed the cognitive and creative abilities we think of as distinctly human have pointed to a series of artifacts dating back some