Smartphones behave like kids: A new video shows how
For a while now I've been talking about how smartphones behave like kids. Recently I got some actual kids together to illustrate the point. This video was a
Adding qualia to quantity: Linda Stone’s idea of the Essential Self
Linda Stone, who gave us the idea of continuous partial attention and email apnea, has a new essay outlining her idea for an Essential Self movement: The entire
Buddhist Geeks podcast, now featuring more me
Episodes 299 and 300 of the Buddhist Geeks podcast feature interviews with me. If you're too lazy to click over to the Buddhist Geeks Web site, you can
Twitter “seems to have been built with uncanny precision to hijack my kind of mind”
Journalist and "wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz has a long piece in New York magazine about her relationship with Twitter: I’ve never before gone mad for any type of technology.
Stop multitasking, schedule email, fight the “distraction addiction”… where have I heard all this before?
Lots of stuff in my Twitter feed coming in about an article by business consultant Kevin Eikenberry titled, wait for it, "Overcoming the Distraction Addiction." [W]hat can we
…in which, in an article on technology and gratification, I assure readers that I’m not a drunk
The San Jose Mercury News is running a big series on how information technology is affecting modern life, and this weekend they had a long piece on gratification.
Clifford Nass
Sad news that Clifford Nass, who did some of the most important recent work on computers and multitasking, and whose work on how we view computers influenced my
Rest is Not Idleness: John Lubbock, Charles Darwin, and the Value of Daydreams
You should read this very interesting article about daydreaming by Jessica Lahey in the Atlantic. I’ve been reading about daydreaming extensively lately, and it has caused me regret
“It’s not a bad thing to help your technology grow up a little:” Elle Magazine on The Distraction Addiction
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
Quote of the day
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