Santa Catalina School on my talk
Courtney Shove, who took the pictures at my Santa Catalina talk, has a nice write-up of the event. My own post about it is here.
Tomorrow on CBC’s Spark: Addiction By Design
Nora Young’s Spark will run a program on “Addiction by Design” tomorrow, featuring interviews with Natasha Dow Schull (who has written some great stuff about the design of video
Chinese edition of The Distraction Addiction
The Chinese edition of The Distraction Addiction is out! You can order your copies from Locus Publishing, my Taiwanese publisher. There's also this cool promotional video: Taiwan's Commonwealth
“We can cake and eat it?”
The Chinese edition of my book is coming out later this month, and there’s a review and excerpt in Taiwan’s Commonwealth Magazine. Since I don’t read Chinese, I
The Distraction Addiction in LA Yoga Magazine
The October issue of LA Yoga Magazine has a short piece by me about digital distraction. If you’re not in the Los Angeles area, you can read the
Interview about contemplative computing on “The Secular Buddhist”
The latest issue of the Secular Buddhist Association's podcast features an interview with me about contemplative computing, The Distraction Addiction, and other things. I had a good time talking to SBA
“Ça reste un livre très amusant à lire”
My book is reviewed on French literary Web site Books and Me: Le livre enfonce aussi beaucoup de portes ouvertes. Ces analogies et ces exemples sont vraiment amusants
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
More on defaulting to mindless behavior
The Edhasa blog has published the second installment of my piece on design, defaults, and mindless behavior, based on The Distraction Addiction. Nothing I haven't said before, but
How Gchat is Destroying Your Life
Huffington Post's Kate Bratskier has a nice article about how Gchat-- or really instant messaging and the cult of instantaneous, real-time response-- erodes our ability to get things