“We found that when you remove email from workers’ lives, they multitask less and experience less stress” – Gloria Marks
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The Greatest Minds of My Generation
“I found it most interesting that people stopped complaining because the engineers found a good way for people to waste their time.” – John Bernier “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads…That sucks.” – Jeff Hammerbacher
Slow Tech
“I realized that I should probably never be on the internet on my iPhone. It’s smaller and slower than my computer. But it’s very easy to just pick it up and read it, rather than a book. So I’m going to try and implement a hard rule of going to my laptop if I want …
Offline – for 1 year
“Now I want to see the internet at a distance. By separating myself from the constant connectivity, I can see which aspects are truly valuable, which are distractions for me, and which parts are corrupting my very soul.” – Paul Miller
Make Stuff Week 2012 – April 30 – May 6
I spent almost all day Sunday outside. Test driving the new BBQ coffee roasting drum, brewing up a batch of sour ale, taking the littlest one for a stroller ride, then tricycle ride, then walk around the block, read 3 chapters in an actual paper book! And today is the beginning of Screen Free Week …
Making real connections over the web: Ze Frank on TED.com
Ze shows the internet can create powerful emotional connections. That promise is why I spent my professional life and so much of my personal life within it. Unfortunately, the powerful emotional connections are rare. Trite, heavy-handed, emotional panderings are aplenty. That’s what we’re opting out of.
Din
“No, you’re not the only one, David. It amazes me that some of the tech blogs have so many dozens of posts each day. There just isn’t that much going on that really matters.” – Richard Bennett
The most important things are quiet
“…it’s easy to be distracted and place value on outside noise instead of focusing on the task at hand or important things in life. With this…I am taking myself out of FB and quieting the noise around me. It’s just not necessary for me to keep in touch with those that mean the most to …
No Matter
“The news didn’t warn us about the death of the real estate market that was coming in 2008. And they weren’t suspicious about the war in Iraq. They can report on sports, but that doesn’t matter. More real people believe in climate change than network anchors. The news doesn’t echo our skepticism or pessimism about …
You can Survive for 12 years without Money
“He has no job, no bank account and does not accept government welfare. In fact, Suelo has no money at all.”