The downside of flow: Machine gambling
I’m a big fan of the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: his book Flow is one of the most important thing I’ve read in the last ten years, and one of
Stephen Poole on “the rise of popular neurobollocks”
No, it's not a new study of people listening to The Sex Pistols while in fMRI machines (though that would make an awesome research project): rather, it's Stephen
Book cover!
Here's the cover for the contemplative computing book:via flickrLittle, Brown spent a lot of time on it, and I think they've managed to communicate a lot in a
Book cover!
Here's the cover for the contemplative computing book:via flickrLittle, Brown spent a lot of time on it, and I think they've managed to communicate a lot in a
Reconnecting.calm
I came across Tom Mahon's name when I was working on the digital Sabbath chapter of my book. In the 1990s, Tom was one of the first advocates
“You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave”
Washington Post has an interesting profile of Katherine Losse, the author of a new inside look at Facebook.Not long after Katherine Losse left her Silicon Valley career and
How writing a book is like racing in the Tour de France, and not like self-marketing
I sent off the revised draft of my book last Friday, and celebrated this weekend by watching the end of the Tour de France. the book is back, via
“I did not find anyone who was absolutely off the grid:” Lucas Foglia on self-sufficiency
The Guardian has a short piece about Lucas Foglia's A Natural Order, a photographic essay about people in America who go off the grid. "I wanted to see
Final revisions
Carrying the changes into the electronic file....via Flickr Posted with Blogsy
“the leading impediment to this project ever getting made would be our continued participation in it”
I recently stumbled on Stephen Harrigan's look back at his "career writing made-for-TV movies." It's worth reading in its entirety, but it takes off with Harrigan's description of the