Signals, complexity, and knowledge vs data in baseball
Okay, first a caveat: I go to a few Oakland As games every season, but I'm not a baseball fanatic; I married into the game. My wife agreed
“What people are angry about… is that we no longer feel in control of the technology in our lives”
In my book The Distraction Addiction I talked about how humans have evolved to have incredibly powerful relationships with technologies, starting with hand axes a million years ago,
“he failed to do [his job] because he was distracted by tweeting”
So the next time you think you can handle checking your email while driving, think back to the 2016 Oscars when La La Land was incorrectly announced as
Roombot and meeting scheduling
In my study of how companies shorten their workdays, one of the things I've consistently seen is companies shortening meetings, and doing a number of things to make
“Exploitation is encoded into the systems we are building”
Writer and artist James Bridle has a long, but rather amazing and disturbing, piece arguing that "Something is wrong on the internet." Specifically he's talking about how kids'
“overwork is just one tool to fight deadlines, and not a solution of first resort”
I've been looking at companies that are fighting back against the culture of overwork (mainly in software, Web development and video games), and this morning came across this
“One day without notifications changes behaviour for two years”
Several years ago, Spanish telecommunications firm Telefónica ran something called the Do Not Disturb Challenge. It's one of a number of such events that have been sponsored by
Is work-life balance a myth?
Yesterday I was on an episode of Al Jazeera's "The Stream" to talk about work-life balance, rest and technology. It was interesting doing a TV show, especially via
Keep Me Posted
I recently got a message about the new Web comedy Keep Me Posted: Keep Me Posted Teaser from Hillary Nussbaum on Vimeo. As the Seed And Spark fundraiser
Cyberloafing, work, and recovery
This study came out a couple months ago, when I working on the revisions to Rest, so I didn't write about it then, but it's still quite timely: it's