Are you an Internet addict? Take this quiz!
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
Smartphones will connect urbanites, unless they’re getting shot on Muni
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
CanFocus and push-button concentration
I recently found out about a Canadian company, CanFocus, and their in-development product, MyFocus. You might think of it as a neutron bomb for digital distractions: it's a
Distinguishing “between the technology that makes your life easier and the technology that breeds mindlessness”
Dylan Love on the case against Google Now: How do we draw the distinction between the technology that makes your life easier and the technology that breeds mindlessness?
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper”
When I was writing The Distraction Addiction, I got into the habit of getting up super-early to write. I'm not a morning person, and never have been, but
“The point is not to shun technology… [but] to reflect on how it’s used”
Australian philosopher Damon Young has a piece about photography, self-distraction, and the use of cameras to avoid deeper interactions and difficult questions: We are not simply eyes and
Is “self-knowledge through numbers” another way of saying “don’t ever go offline”?
NYU professor Anna Akbari has a piece in CNN about why she limits her the of smartphones and laptops in her classes. The experience of not being constantly
“Actively ignoring everything that I didn’t think was important enough to distract me felt (and feels) great”
Evan Solomon, an engineer at Medium, describes his efforts to "ignore all distractions from my phone when I’m with other people:" There’s an expanding set of distractions in most
Distraction and mental illness: Can the former cause the latter?
Could there a link between distraction and mental illness? Certainly a full day of nonstop stimulation and switch-tasking– ringing phones, dealing with customers, responding to little kids, etc.–
New distracted driving messages
On Thursday, two new distracted driving messages came out. First, Little Brown released the second of its "propaganda posters" inspired by The Distraction Addiction, and reminding people of