“there was no alternative to constant, ubiquitous engagement”
Kill. Me. Now: During a panel I moderated with well-known blogger and tech expert Robert Scoble, he said there was no alternative to constant, ubiquitous engagement and held
Not having WiFi was never so delicious: Kit Kat’s No WiFi Zones
No wonder a Dutch publisher was the first to buy the rights to my book: Nestlé, as part of a Kit Kat advertising campaign, has a set up
“Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”
From Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations, quoted in Damon Young's fine book Distraction: How we labor at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our
Texting from the toilet
This number keeps going up, I can't help but notice. Texting from the Toilet: Mobile Computing Use and Acceptance in Public and Private Restrooms The proliferation of mobile
Keep Breathing, Never Watch a Loading Screen, and Don’t Switch-task, Multitask: iPhone lock screens as nudges
A couple months ago I wrote "Never Watch A Loading Screen" on a Post-It, took a picture of it, and made that picture the lock screen on my
“denial of the health and wellbeing impact of our… constant connection… is equivalent to climate change denial”
I'm not sure I quite agree with this idea from the RSA, but I kind of like it. [A] trusted source with neuroscientific expertise, who has thought deeply
“Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself”
Writing for BBC News, Damon Young warns against seeing distraction as a modern problem: Over a century ago, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche described his harassed peers. "One thinks with
“to be distracted is to be torn away from what is worthwhile in life”
I just came across a 2008 book, Distraction: A Philosopher's Guide to Being Free, by Melbourne-based philosopher and writer Damon Young. Young seems to be a kind of
“Even in small doses, mindfulness can effect impressive changes in how we feel and think”
Maria Konnikova, author of the soon-to-be-published book Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, has a piece in the New York Times about the benefits of mindfulness. (Clearly Viking/Penguin's
“in our frenetic, technology-obsessed age we have lost the ability to contemplate”
Simon Doonan explains what's wrong with art today. One of his points: Short attention spans have made art into one quickie sight gag after another. Is that an