Amazon, Hachette, and my book
Jeremy Greenfield has a good piece in The Atlantic about how the fight between Amazon and Hachette (the publishing conglomerate that owns Little, Brown, which published The Distraction
“Loneliness in old age doesn’t occur just because older people haven’t learned to use the internet”
The Guardian reports on a recent report from the “centre-right Policy Exchange think tank… [that] recommends £875m should be spent on training the 6.2 million mainly elderly people
How can we “help the Internet connect us to others in a more meaningful way?”
A few days ago, Zócalo Public Square asked me for a short answer to the question, "What do we need to do to help the Internet connect us
“any technological device can only help you if you use it properly”
The latest of Scott Meyer’s Basic Instructions is great: [h/t to Balloon Juice]
“most companies have no clear understanding of how their leaders and employees are spending their collective time”
Harvard Business Review has a long piece by several Bain & Co. consultants on how much time organizations waste through email, meetings, etc. TL;DR version: it’s a lot,
“I’m far more likely to find a solution by going for a walk than sitting at my desk and ‘thinking'”
BBC correspondent Finlo Rohrer has a nice piece about the importance of “purposeless walking” to creative people in the BBC News Magazine-- the kinds of walks that aren’t meant
New study on walking and creativity: It’s the walking, not the where
I’ve long been interested in the relationship between walking and creative thinking. the sandwalk I devoted a chapter of The Distraction Addiction to walking and restorative activities, particularly
Turning backgrounds and lock screens in visual nudges
So far, my discussion about the mindful iPhone has focused on things you can do to your phone to make it less distracting, better able to distinguish between
Using the Do Not Disturb feature on your iPhone
Another feature that turns your iPhone into a filter between you and the world is Do Not Disturb. When you activate Do Not Disturb (DND), incoming calls, texts,
Flash or vibrate?
One of my favorite illustrations of the physical nature of our relationship with smartphones, and of the ways that relationship can go awry, is the phenomenon of phantom