Hands Free Mama
Not really much to say about this blog, just want to note its existence: I want the noise of my life to be a mixture of laughter and
Why do we “check” our email? What happens if we call it something else?
Jonathan Rowson at the RSA, who goes on my very long list of people I'd like to one day meet in person when I'm in London, muses over
Shockingly, best practices in mobile app push strategies don’t think much about the user’s attention
Last night I talked about why I was cautiously optimistic that wearable computing wouldn't devolve into the Kurt Vonnegut short story "Harrison Bergeron." After reading this HBR piece
Self-driving cars, self-discipline, and the perils of automation
I know I just wrote about the AAA study on cognitive load and distracted driving, but Liz Gannes on All Things D (which has a brilliant editor) has
Distraction, voice recognition, and driving
Think that Siri or a handsfree set makes it safe for you to send texts and do email in the car? (While the car is moving, not a
“it’s a spiritual problem when we send out 150 tweets every hour and a half”
Richard Foster, in an interview with Shane Blackshear: The deepest discipline on the American scene today is silence, because we are absolutely consumed with insane babble.... I've made
“some people on the cutting edge of tech are trying their best to push it back a few feet”
Nick Bilton, who like me seems to go everywhere with a really nice camera (you don’t this kind of bokeh from a smartphone camera), has a couple recent
Playing Russian Roulette with your Facebook account
”Everyone talks about deleting their Facebook account, but we rarely take action," Social Roulette co-creator Kyle McDonald says. "Sometimes we need a simple game to help take the
Is Google Glass an anti-distraction tool?
In the wake of the Guardian article on conscious computing I've had a couple interesting conversations with people about Google Glass and whether it-- and more generally wearables--
Contemplative computing in the Guardian
Oliver Burkeman has a really great piece in the Guardian about contemplative computing, or what he refers to as conscious computing. Thanks to my genius of an agent,