“younger workers are often off task, engaged on social media”
Take it with a grain of salt, but this from a Texas factory owner complaining about government regulations as Kids Today: The Department of Labor rules and other
“high-achieving people might be unintentionally harming their kids by bringing their attitudes about work into their parenting”
Psychologist Shefali Tsbary makes the case that high-achieving people might be unintentionally harming their kids by bringing their attitudes about work into their parenting. "In this culture we
Why is scientific sexism so intractably resistant to reform? | Aeon Essays
Science writer Margaret Wertheim writes about sexism in science. One of the many lines that lines struck me: I think about all the young women now being forced
Manage Stress by Listening to Your Body – Mindful
A new study in the journal Biological Psychology suggests that people with better body awareness tend to feel less stressed. That’s no surprise, perhaps, if you’ve already been practicing mindfulness, but may seem odd
Is attention a resource or a relationship?
Tom Chatfield’s short essay, "The attention economy,” raises an interesting question: why do we think of attention as a resource? For all the sophistication of a world in
The Internet of Things is just another way to distract you
One of the things you always, and I mean always, hear about Internet of Things and smart home devices is that they “just work.” They’re all like these
Identity projects, adolescence, and success
A recent book by Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin, Coming of Age in the Other America, that aims to explain how some poor kids manage to thrive,
Big news: Rapper Crush wins second Korean Space Out Contest
This is easy to play as a "news of the weird" piece, but having spent lots of time studying the benefits of mind-wandering and restorative activities, I can't
I’m back
For the last few weeks I've been finishing the revisions to my book on deliberate rest, and so have been focused on that instead of the blog. As much
16 hours a month on Facebook is the new normal
A new study by Comscore of Americans’ social media network use in 2015 reveals that people over 35 spend an average of 22 hours a month on social