Researchers have been studying the productivity effects of remote work and work from home for years, and generally the results have trended in a positive direction. Stanford
I'm off to Europe today for a 3-week research and speaking tour, but before I leave I wanted to flag this just-published interview I did with Andrew Curry
Michael Schulson in Aeon writes about designing devices for addiction: [S]hould individuals be blamed for having poor self-control? To a point, yes. Personal responsibility matters. But it’s important
David Auerbach writes in Slate about “coder’s high,” an “intense feeling of absorption exclusive to programmers:" [O]ne of the things I miss about programming is the coder’s high:
Linda Stone, who gave us the idea of continuous partial attention and email apnea, has a new essay outlining her idea for an Essential Self movement: The entire
Alexis Madrigal has a long, thoughtful piece in The Atlantic about something I've remarked on a couple times: the flow-like, yet addictive, experience that we often have when
This from an interview with Linda Stone: The people I spoke with who worked in office jobs typically said they managed their time. Many of them had taken
What I love about this Philippe Starck interview is that it flies completely in the face of the modern idea that good ideas come out of endless networking,
This is interesting: Flow Genome Project is a trans-disciplinary, international organization committed to mapping the genome of Flow by 2020 and open sourcing it to everyone. I'm not really sure what
The first big talk I gave about contemplative computing was at a conference on technology whose theme was "Slow." Last night I revisited that ground: I spoke at
