Is There an Art to People Watching? We Ask Psychologist and Best-Selling Author Sherry Turkle.
Are you a people watcher?
Do you spend half of your time in a coffee shop eyeing the other patrons out of the corner of your eye?
Sherry Turkle is a social researcher who calls herself "a bit of a Nancy Drew." She's been able to uncover many practical insights about how we relate to the people around us, including an important finding about where you keep your cell phone while hanging out with friends.
In this week's episode of Truth or Dare, Sherry shares what she's discovered ...
So You Want to Try Periscope? Here’s What You Need to Know.
The Periscope App
The Periscope App, which can be downloaded on your phone, is inspired by the "periscope" used by sailors to spy on the outside world from their submarine.
The app version of that lets you get a peek into someone else's life and world. For instance, you can use Periscope to step into my office and be part of a conversation as I sit on my purple couch. You can take a walk with someone as they exercise their German Shepherd in the pastures of the Netherlands. You can ride ...
Is Multi-Tasking a Way of Life? Professor Cal Newport Says It Doesn’t Have to Be.
Is Concentration a Lost Art?
You decide to take on a massive project.
It could be putting together an ambitious proposal for work or gathering up receipts and tackling That Spiral of Darkness that is taxes. Or, it could be a household task--like finally organizing that medieval dungeon we call a garage.
You mark off D-Day on your calendar and, when the day arrives, you sit down to show this task who is boss. For the first ten minutes, you're locked in. You're sorting, you're making ...
An Update: When Less Is More
Instead of writing a blog post for you, I'm hunched over the kitchen counter drawing icing eyes on a fruit shishkabob caterpillar.
Welcome to the this-writer-has-toddlers stage.
Today, I bring you a blog update from the top of the block tower however. Picture me at a lego podium surrounded by news crew mics, while toting a diaper clad toddler with smashed banana on his face. It's that kind of press release.
The things that shaped today's update go back more than 10 years...
In ...
I Challenge You To Read All the #Ferguson Evidence From Both Sides
I decided to challenge myself. To read ALL of the evidence, testimony, and legal arguments presented by both sides in the Ferguson case.
So today I'm reading.
The first volume was 82 pages long. The second one was 194. There are 22 more volumesafter that. And it doesn't stop there. There are also 22 supplementary reports. And THEN, there are 32 documents that captured witness testimony.
Yep. It's a MAMMOTH undertaking, but I believe it is justified. Ferguson is a mammoth event in my lifetime.