Former White House staffer Bill Burton argues that people should “stop complaining about Obama’s golfing.” Bottom line: it’s not really a vacation, even in Hawaii. Burton makes a
This new article in Computers in Human Behavior is really interesting. A research team led by Patricia Greenfield wanted to know "whether increasing opportunities for face-to-face interaction while
I love this: The Times of London is piping the sound of old-fashioned typewriters into its newsroom. Nearly three decades after Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper publisher revolutionised the
Derek Thompson writes on the “joys and sorrows of late-night email:" For a certain class of workers, late evening isn't time off work. It's time on email, time
My news feed recently included several articles about a new study of the importance of deliberate practice in developing talent. One headline read that “The 10,000 Hour Rule
According to an Agence France-Press article that first appeared in the South China Morning Post and was recently reprinted in, of all places, Uganda’s New Vision, Psychiatrists in Singapore
The BBC recently had a piece on smartphone stress that’s worth a read. Two things stood out in particular. One is the work of Coventry University professor Christine
If you come to Paris, we shall try to organize our day so as to slog hard, without however neglecting pipe, glass and song. (Emile Zola to Paul
Nautilus has a good short piece about research on how we see our future selves. I devoted a couple paragraphs of the book to this subject, so I
I’ve had some great covers for my book (in several languages), but when I saw Marsel van Oosten’s fantastic photograph “Facebook Update,” I thought: That would make an awesome