Talking about binge-watching in Le Nouvel Observateur
This weekend Le Nouvel Observateur ran a front-page article on binge watching that features a couple quotes from me. If you didn’t know better you’d think I spoke French.
The backlash against “meditation as a path to productivity”
David Pecotic flagged this New York Times piece about the "backlash against mindfulness," which mainly is a backlash among Buddhists against the corporatization of mindfulness, rather than a
“Fitbit for your vagina”
San Francisco-based Minna Life has a Kickstarter campaign for, not exactly a wearable device (I don't think), but certainly one that takes exercise and self-monitoring to new places: kGoal,
“You’re never going to look at those firework photos or videos anyway”
On Tech Crunch, a rather sensible rant against taking pictures of fireworks. You’re never going to look at those firework photos or videos anyway. The courteous, pity-likes you
In case you were sad that your ring doesn’t notify you when you have new email
…the problem of “jewelry that doesn’t make noise when something in your digital life” has just been disrupted by the perfectly-named Ringly, a Brooklyn company founded by eBay
“We shouldn’t run from boredom as if it is a tedious friend but sit down and listen to it”
Two recent articles talk about the complexity of boredom. In The Telegraph (as well as the New Zealand Herald), Kate Bussman notes the relationship between boredom and creativity. Boredom is something
“we are together in a universe where two human beings can simultaneously understand the statement ‘if space is numeric!'”
David Auerbach writes in Slate about “coder’s high,” an “intense feeling of absorption exclusive to programmers:" [O]ne of the things I miss about programming is the coder’s high:
“giving everybody the same length of cable:” equalizing distance to obliterate time in HFT
High-frequency trading has long stood as a great example of how the physicality of computing really matters, contrary to companies’ breezy declarations that everything is in The Cloud.
Quote of the day: William Gibson
"It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future." (From his Paris Review interview.)
“Students will tweet for help… and expect an immediate response”
When I was working on my dissertation I spent a week at Exeter University. It’s a lovely place, I think-- I really saw nothing other than the library,