Constraint and creativity in online advertising
Felix Salmon, who's emerging as my favorite non-Matt Taibbi writer on financial matters, had an interesting post today on the future of online advertising. I’ve been looking at
On the success of Angry Birds
My wife shot me a link to this article: Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience Recently clients have asked
Steve Jobs and Buddhism
A long, interesting piece on PLOS Blogs' NeuroTribe asks, "What kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs?" Not in the sense of lineage or doctrinal belief-- he was most
“the transaction cost to procrastination has become zero”
Lifehacker recently had a piece on technology "crippling" as a strategy for boosting productivity: Every advance in productivity afforded by technology has been quickly swallowed by a corresponding
“Slowly, the tools of the hand disappear”
My architectural history mentor, David Brownlee, shared a link to this essay by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien on slowness and hand-work in architectural practice. This is a
Fred Stutzman on Freedom, productivity, and bigger/better/faster vs. smaller/better/slower
Fred Stutzman, the creator of Freedom and Anti-Social, and now a postdoc at CMU (and like me, a Microsoft Research Lab alum) has a very nice reflection about
“Think of how unproductive Dickens would have been if he had to fight against Facebook”
John Biggs reviews a couple distraction-free text editors in the New York Times: With the release of Mac OS X Lion, the idea of a full-screen app —
Today’s picture: Multitasking by design
A surprising example of multitasking technology: a combination bookmark / letter opener / hair stick.via flickr Part of me thinks this is the quirkiest thing since Selleck Waterfall
More on architecture, drawing, and thinking
I've been reading up on the effects of CAD-- and more specifically, the abandonment of drawing in architectural education-- on architectural thinking and practice. It's a great example
Alok Khorana on electronic medical records’ impact on physicians’ notes
Last year Alok Khorana published a really excellent short piece on the impact of electronic medical records (EMRs, those things that are supposed to save medicine) on the