The smartphone is an amazing invention. With one device, you can make calls, send texts and emails, listen to music, read books, plan your day, shine light with its flashlight, level cabinets, time your hardboiled eggs, count your steps, etc..
While Steve Jobs is perhaps the most famous uniform wearer of recent times, he is/was not the only tech billionaire with such a predictable wardrobe. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is also fond of wearing the same thing day in, day out..
A powerful executive was walking along the beach in a small coastal village, taking a much needed vacation. It was his first in more than 10 years. He noticed a small boat with just one fisherman pulling up to shore..
There is a new software system called Phylter developed by a group of scientists at Tufts University. Phylter is meant as an accompaniment to wearable tech, which poses the risk of non-stop notifications of texts, emails, twitter updates and the.
It’s a funny contradiction that the information age–so brimming with raw creative material–is often the assassin of creativity. It’s as if our consciousness has so much data coming in, we have lost the capacity (or time) to put it out..
When I was younger, my workouts were leisurely and mellow-tempoed: six to eight hours bike rides up the canyons around Boulder, CO, two to three hour workouts at the gyms, resting three minutes between sets and so on. These were.
“Between stimulus and response is our greatest power—the freedom to choose.” –Stephen Covey If you’re anything like me, Mondays tend to suck. Unlike other weekdays, which seem distinct and portioned out with manageable tasks and objectives, I look at Monday as a.
If you’ve been around the social media, new media sphere for a while, you probably know the name Clay Shirky. Perhaps best known for penning, “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations,” he is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for.
Enter many children’s classrooms and chances are you will be visually assaulted: walls are lined with construction paper turkeys, world maps, posters advocating the consumption of celery and so forth. While this visual maelstrom might strike most of us as a.
Awareness can be a bitch. For example, it’s one thing to have an intellectual understanding that factory farming is bad based on articles and some statistics. It’s another to visit a factory farm or see one of those gnarly PETA videos..