This 2012 presentation on digital detoxes, Zenware, and other efforts to buy escapes from distraction by Kasi Bruno, Director of Strategy and Cultural Insight at Young & Rubicam
Somehow I managed not to flag this article about "How the Internet, Social Media and Smartphones are Dividing and Conquering Our Consciousness" in the October issue of Elle
This weekend I read Laurence Freeman’s lovely short book, Pearl of Great Price. The book takes a couple hours to get through, and it’s available as a free
This looks like a really interesting project, from fellow Penn history of science product Josh Berson: Somatic Niche ConstructionDramatic changes are unfolding in the shape of inhabited space,
The Atlantic reports on a recent study in the "Journal of Consumer Psychology [that] suggests that spending time focusing on images of food makes the food itself less
From Zanni Louise's "Why Smartphones Don't Make You Happy:" It’s true, smartphones are numbing. I sit at the edge of sadness, never truly going there because someone’s pretty
Even though it's several years old, I highly recommend this Financial Times profile of Laurence Freeman, founder of the World Community for Christian Meditation, and his effort to
The Financial Times recently had an article about meditation in finance: Backed by clinical trials and married with neuroscience, the idea that meditation can help anyone find a
The Guardian has a quiz to test if you're an Internet addict. For the record, I'm not (really, I'm a recovering one). It has been reported that the
Two contrasting pieces in the news recently. First, an Atlantic piece about a recent CityLab meeting: Does mobile technology give people an excuse to isolate themselves, or is