Harvard Business Review has a long piece by several Bain & Co. consultants on how much time organizations waste through email, meetings, etc. TL;DR version: it’s a lot,
Tony Haile, the CEO of Chartbeat, has an important piece in Time magazine on the rise, and one hopes fall, of Web design and business efforts that focus
Huffington Post's Kate Bratskier has a nice article about how Gchat-- or really instant messaging and the cult of instantaneous, real-time response-- erodes our ability to get things
I've written a series of posts that are appearing on the blog of the publishing house Edhasa, which is bringing out the Spanish-language edition of my book, The
The folks at Digital Detoxing have announced their new Even Smarter Phone project. I love the appropriation of the smartphone form factor, and the space for a pencil.
Don’t forget: April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month.
Erin Anderssen shows that newspapers in Canada are still able to write about something other than Rob Ford: she has a long piece in the Toronto Globe and
Though I only just found out (via Ana Díaz-Hernández) that last summer, the German Ministry of Labor, concerned about overworking employees, set new guidelines against non-emergency communications with Ministry employees
The Wall Street Journal reports on a new study of productivity, accessibility, and worker effectiveness: Reading and sending work email on a smartphone late into the evening doesn’t
Ian Bogost has a terrific essay about how video games are designed to be time-consuming and addictive, and how those qualities translate into revenue and goosed stock prices