I’ve had some great covers for my book (in several languages), but when I saw Marsel van Oosten’s fantastic photograph “Facebook Update,” I thought: That would make an awesome
Earth Island Journal editor Jason Mark has a piece in The Atlantic about proposals to make wifi available in national parks and other remote areas, and whether a
Buddhify recently conducted a survey of its users to find out why they started meditating. Here are the results: Notice anything interesting? Nearly 60% said that they were
Michael Harris’ The End of Absence: Reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection come out this week, and to mark its publication, Penguin is doing something
Michael Harris writes in the Harvard Business Review blog about the hidden productivity hit that comes from being always-on. Being constantly connected and multitasking, he argues, makes us
Devorah Heitner, who runs the Raising Digital Natives program in Chicago, has two recent great posts about her workshops with kids. As she explains, I do a lot
Annie Murphy Paul has a piece in Slate on counter-marketing campaigns that reduced teen smoking, and how they could serve as a model to help kids become more
I published a short piece on Medium about digital Sabbaths. I was inspired to write it by Jessica Valenti's entirely unobjectionable piece in The Guardian about how deleting
My friend Anthony Townsend points me to this great piece by a New York restaurant owner who was trying to figure out why fewer customers were being served
From the preface to Richard Gabriel’s book Patterns in Software [pdf]: In my life as an architect, I find that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students