LSE professor Judy Wacjman explains why "time-saving technology has completely backfired:" First, there's the question: is a "hyper-productive philosophy—and the digital devices it breeds—actually conducive to genuine inventiveness and imagination?"
Today I started a leave of absence from my job, to focus on finishing my book. The manuscript is due in five weeks, and I'm determined to make
In 1926, in his classic yet often-forgotten The Art of Thought, Graham Wallas warned against engaging distractions like reading the newspaper. Newspaper reading is for most of us a
It's very old, but Crowley's essay on solitude is still worth reading: The First Minister of State has not so much business in public as a wise man
Lauren Hockenson at the Next Web pans the recent Dreamforce "Women's Innovation Panel," which featured Susan Wojcicki and Jessica Alba being interviewed by Gayle King. Apparently, it did not go so
I have to start by confessing that I love LOVE LOVE Pixar movies. I think Cars and The Incredibles are fantastic, I love Finding Nemo (it's amazing how little kids at
Anne-Marie Slaughter has an essay in the New York Times about today's "Toxic Work World." Following on yesterday's post on Swedish experiments in a six-hour day, it's a depressing
The Guardian reports on experiments in Sweden to shorten the workday, in an effort to get higher-quality work and reduce turnover. In the Svartedalens care home, a Gothenburg nursing home, for
That was Samuel Johnson writing in The Idler two centuries ago (and quoted in a more recent essay by Steven Poole). Some things seem constant. There is no
So said Linus Pauling in a 1961 talk on “The Genesis of Ideas,” which I just discovered via Robert Scott Root-Bernstein. “As the world becomes more and more
