“We’re drowning in email:” The Email Charter’s call for change
Indicative of the times we live in: the Email Charter. We're drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for
Graph of the day
Microhate by number of slides, by Alexis Madrigal.
“The brain doesn’t really need that much stimulus in order to create a virtual reality”
A profile of cyborg anthropologist Amber Case. Case has been studying how becoming more digital changes the way we think and act. The cyborg was envisioned as a
Venn diagram of the day
From The New Inquiry: Essentially, it's a graphic version of the great Jeff Hammerbacher line, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click
In defense of sexting
Writer Sarah Nicole Prickett on "Speaking in Tongues:" It is funny how many of the traditional newspaper writers who castigate “my” generation’s sexting as somehow stemming “real” flesh-and-blood
Social graph versus social class
Via Big Think, I found this piece by Rob Horning of The New Inquiry on "Social Graph vs. Social Class." I'm not enough of an insider to be able
Search Inside Yourself
Chade-Meng Tan's new book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) is just out, and it's gotten the kind of lengthy treatment in
Pang’s Zombie Apocalypse Memorization Test
One of the questions I've been working through in my book is this: how do you decide when it's okay to outsource a cognitive function? When is it
“although there are many persons” in the term social media, “there is nothing personal about it”
Forbes has a good interview with Quiet Place creator Amitay Tweeto. Amitay has a nice shout-out to my project, but mainly I want to call attention to some
So much for arguments against multitasking
Looks like Google Chrome's new multitasking mode solves them!