Little practices, big results: Nudges toward greater mindfulness
I've been noticing recently a number of people designing experiments or challenges that help them back away from constant, intrusive use of information technology, and help them find
Data-points on digital distraction: Dilbert and Daniel Pink
Two quick things: This Sunday's Dilbert: And this tweet from Daniel Pink: MT @tirosenberg: The Pope goes on Twitter, and a few months later loses all interest in
Restoration, thinking paths and obliquity
Tony Schwartz has a piece in the New York Times about rest and productivity. His big point is a classic example of obliquity: that while we assume that
The panoptic Gaze was never so stylish: Felipe Luchi’s digital device prisons
Brazilian creative director Felipe Luchi created these great jailhouse pictures for Outside. As Gizmodo comments, It's the perfect definition of this digital life. We are prisoners of our phones and
Excerpt from talk at Hachette Book Group
Hachette has put a bit of my December talk online:
“The problem is not email. The problem is people.”
Jon Mitchell (who wrote a nice piece on Digital Detox) on "How to Train Your Internet Friends:" The problem here at the dawn of the Information Age is
Horse therapy and Internet addiction
Maybe this is proof that I've posted enough this evening: What do you do if your teenage daughter is addicted to videogames and Internet porn? For one South
Remodelista’s “10 Cures for TechnoStress”
Very interesting to see this piece by Jackie Ashton on a Web site mainly devoted to design and decor: Frank Lloyd Wright said it best: “If it keeps up,
“…an American game called ‘Don’t be a dick at dinner’…”
Speaking at the Hay Conference in Cartagena (a city I confess I only know through Romancing the Stone), London School of Economics professor Paul Dolan makes what should be
“having a Pebble changes the contours of distraction, but doesn’t reduce it”
The Pebble is the Kickstarter-famous swartwatch that serves as a second screen for your iPhone. (It's hardly the only watch of this kind: the Sony SmartWatch and Cookoo