Keep Breathing, Never Watch a Loading Screen, and Don’t Switch-task, Multitask: iPhone lock screens as nudges
A couple months ago I wrote "Never Watch A Loading Screen" on a Post-It, took a picture of it, and made that picture the lock screen on my
Creating the feeling of connectedness
Add to the arguments about whether social media is "really" social or not: this new study by University of Berlin's Fenne große Deters and Arizona State's Matthias R. Mehl,
Digital Detox and the commodification of unplugging
In the Bay Area, what starts out as counterculture eventually becomes a commodity. It's inevitable, and not a bad thing: indeed, the counterculture has always had an entrepreneurial
“I got to know them. Until someone higher up in the chain of command gave me the order to shoot.”
Der Spiegel has a really good piece about what it's like to be a drone pilot, a job that has received rather little respect in the military (for
Surprising study: College students want quiet space, can’t find it
A new Gensler study* [pdf], discussed in Fast Co.exist (or however one should write that– the whole project is so typographically challenging the brand become impossible to find
Your challenge is accepted, Wall Street Journal
It's rather cheeky to title an article "Workplace Distractions: Here's Why You Won't Finish This Article," as the Wall Street Journal does with its recent piece on the
Designing interfaces is designing users
About once a month I'll come across an article of book that makes me think, I really wish I'd met that person when I was in Cambridge. This
The solution to the problem of working in bed is NOT a wifi-enabled bed
The Wall Street Journal reports that researchers "who study work habits say a new generation reared on mobile devices is increasingly accustomed to using them while propped against
The Internet is the Problem
Saw this in a parking lot in Mountain View this afternoon. via flickr I don't believe it for a minute, but I was still amused to see it.Posted
You damn kids get off my lawn, with your misinterpretations of neuroplasticity and media history!
I'm just getting around to Carl Wilkinson's recent Telegraph essay on writers "Shutting out a world of digital distraction." It's about how Zadie Smith, Nick Hornby and others