Austin Kleon shares how he and wife try to cultivate a space and a time where one can get away from the world. > Kids, jobs, sleep, and a thousand other things will get in the way, but we have to find our own sacred space, our own sacred time. I give this a hearty, “Amen!” As one who values some daily time away from all the activity and people of my life, I appreciate the idea. And I can understand the need for both a space and time. Oddly enough, I appreciate both. During the workday, I appre…
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When it comes to teaching my kids about distraction and the digital life, I'm trying my best not to be a hypocrite.
Cal Newport suggests we get rid of email, but is this medium truly the problem? This knowledge worker prefers asynchronous options over the popular alternatives like Slack.
Some articles open with a whimper, some with a bang. This one is in the latter camp: > Busy, distracted, inattentive? Everybody has been since at least 1710 and here are the philosophers to prove it It’s an interesting read, where the author, Frank Furedi, is looking at the past in an attempt to address the concerns of the present. Concerns regarding attention, or the lack thereof. And he claims we’re not dealing with anything new, but with an issue that has been around for 300 years. > Those…
A review of Cal Newport's Deep Work, one of the best books I've read in some time.
Personally, I don’t believe I’ve even seen an Apple Watch with my own eyes. Partly because of where I live, but partly because I’ve had no interest in it from day one. I love my old fashioned time piece and I’ve slowly been migrating to having less devices [https://twitter.com/chrisbowler/status/644247898486521856] to distract me from my family, not more. Subsequently, I haven’t read a lot of opinion pieces on the Apple Watch. But one that did cross my Instapaper was from Craig Mod. He (as us…
The details of this report match my own habits. My iPad usage had declined significantly over the past two years. Once I made the upgrade to the bigger screen of the iPhone 6, I was more than ready to get rid of the awkward middle child of my digital setup. And it looks like a lot of people are on the same path. > But what has captured publishers’ attention is the increase in the number of people reading their phones. More telling: > Some 45% of iBooks purchases are now downloaded onto iPhone…
My good friend and all around smart chap, Shawn Blanc, has been working on a new product titled The Focus Course. One could assume that due to my relationship with Shawn, I'd be promoting his newest offering regardless of what's involved. And you'd probably be right. But there are two caveats to that thought. One: Shawn is an excellent writer, a thoughtful thinker, and puts his everything into all his projects. So it's easy to promote his launches even when lacking familiarity. I would feel no…