“We can cake and eat it?”
The Chinese edition of my book is coming out later this month, and there’s a review and excerpt in Taiwan’s Commonwealth Magazine. Since I don’t read Chinese, I
“The classroom is an excellent opportunity to practice mindfulness”
Ohio State communications professor Jesse Fox, whose work I talk about in my book, explains “Why I don’t allow devices in my classes.” If you’re a teacher, you
“I have a classroom full of riders and elephants, but I’m trying to teach the riders”
“I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement, so I’m a pretty unlikely candidate for
Germany considering guidelines to regulate off-hours email
Last year the German Ministry of Labor set new guidelines to reduce the amount of email sent after hours. As labor minister Ursula von der Leyen put it, "It's in the
The Distraction Addiction in LA Yoga Magazine
The October issue of LA Yoga Magazine has a short piece by me about digital distraction. If you’re not in the Los Angeles area, you can read the
Is Einstein history’s greatest “don’t give up your day job” story?
From Walter Isaacson’s Einstein: His Life and Universe: So it was that Albert Einstein would end up spending the most creative seven years of his life— even after
Unstructured time and self-directed executive functioning
Another study examining how unstructured time is important for kids: a Frontiers in Psychology article on how “Less-structured time in children's daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning.” From the
“employees who lay in bed in the evening with laptops and phones answering emails had a much less restful night”
Yet another study on the negative consequences of sleeping with your cellphone, keeping your devices in bed with you, and staying up late answering email: Reading work-related emails
Comparative study of different forms of meditation
This study is badly needed: There are countless ways of meditating, but the purpose behind them all remains basically the same: more peace, less stress, better concentration, greater
A global history of meditation
I can only say I wish this project had been completed when I was writing The Distraction Addiction: a three-volume comparative study of meditation in global religions. I