New! Inaugural Guest on TechnologyforMindfulness.com Podcast
Tag Archives: dark age

A Move Toward Slower Living – Part I

May
12,
2009
1Comments

Slow is hot. In recent years, movements have sprouted to explore slow food, slow art and slow family living. It’s a bit hard to fathom what exactly “slow” means in all these contexts. There’s a bit of pro-green living here, anti-materialism, mindful awareness, community-building, all of which loosely adds up to . . . read more

Category: Uncategorized // Tagged: , , ,

We’re Busy. We’re Productive. But In What Sense of the Word?

Mar
11,
2009
0Comments

We’re so busy, so “productive,” ticking off items off our agendas, clicking through over-stuffed in-boxes. But in what sense are we productive ? Could it be that we are racing ahead in the most shallow senses of the word?

 This is a particularly timely question as we reap the fall-out from an era of . . . read more

Categories: Distracted, Family Life // Tagged: , , ,

Why do we multitask?

Oct
31,
2008
1Comments

Recently, I was asked a good question – why are we as a nation addicted to multitasking? – by Mike Hoyt, the editor of Columbia Journalism Review, and I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on this topic.

To preface, let’s just say that this topic couldn’t be more important now. A number of people . . . read more

Category: Uncategorized // Tagged: , ,