Against working on planes
Just a reminder that your mileage my vary, but: Business Week makes the case for why business travelers shouldn't work on planes: click for full-sized image I'm sure
Don’t like your your phone “buzzing like a beehive with status updates”? Try it on your face!
This observation from The Verge's Ellis Hamburger: Let's face it: we're all pretty horrible at turning off push notifications on our smartphones. You install an app, give it
“If I keep this Internet crap up… I’ll lose roughly a novel and a half to my Internet distractions. That ain’t cute.”
Alex Mar talks about how the Internet is invading the writers' retreat, with predictable and lamentable results. Residencies have long been the writer’s last defense against the distractions
Sergey was right, they ARE emasculating! Smartphone-using men now pee sitting down
Cellphone use has made people forget how to walk in straight lines, walk more slowly, and of course become threats to public safety while driving. Last week, several
On the “slowness” of slow tech: Is it about specs, or about experience?
The first big talk I gave about contemplative computing was at a conference on technology whose theme was "Slow." Last night I revisited that ground: I spoke at
Today I am a man: I have a tiny computer strapped to my forehead
via venture beat Huh? Speaking at the TED Conference today in Long Beach, Calif., [Google co-founder Sergey] Brin told the audience that smartphones are "emasculating." Okay... “You’re actually
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
Yes, they do. (An anti-distracted driving ad campaign in Alberta, via Jezebel.)
Facebook “exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does”
I've been reading the page proofs for The Distraction Addiction, and should be done with it in a few days. As with any 250-page book, there are a
The price of attention
Esther Dyson suggests one way to deal with the attention burden of e-mail: make people who want your attention pay for your time. The system still lets other
Distraction is “the curse of the postmodern age”
Richard Foster, from a 2011 interview: If superficiality is the curse of the modern age, what's the curse of the postmodern age?Distraction. With the Internet and entertainment, so