“Exploitation is encoded into the systems we are building”
Writer and artist James Bridle has a long, but rather amazing and disturbing, piece arguing that "Something is wrong on the internet." Specifically he's talking about how kids'
Honolulu fights ‘smartphone zombies’
Just enjoy the sunset! The city of Honolulu has passed a law that "targets 'smartphone zombies'," people crossing the street while using their smartphones and not looking where
When the world doesn’t provide us stimulation, it’s offering us a gift: More on creativity and boredom
More people seem to be getting interested in boredom. Now the World Economic Forum has a video about the value of letting your mind do nothing at all:
On rest and value of boredom
Over the weekend I had a short piece in Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper, which was dedicated to "the benefits of boredom." My piece explains why "Rest and Boredom
Smartphone distraction and pedestrian deaths
Time to update this poster. A new study by the Governors Highway Safety Association finds that in the first half of 2016, pedestrian fatalities reached a two-decade high.
Toy-free play
The Atlantic has a piece about the German practice of putting away toys in kindergarten for a period in order to encourage children to learn to rely more
Was digital distraction responsible for the Oscar gaffe?
Sounds like it could have been, according to Variety: Brian Cullinan, one of the two PriceWaterhouseCoopers partners who handled the Oscar envelopes on Sunday night, was tweeting photos
The flat, non-distracting doorways of the new Apple spaceship
Having written so much in REST and on this blog about the creative power of walks, I was struck by this detail in Julia Love’s Reuters article about
Constant availability, job performance, and the loss of professional autonomy
In the Martin Scorcese movie Goodfellas, Henry Hill explains how people interact with the big Mafia boss, Paul Cicero. He got all his calls second hand. Then you’d
Greyscale your smartphone screen to make it less compelling
I hadn’t heard of this idea until this Atlantic video from James Hamblin: