Solnit’s nostalgia
Rebecca Solnit writes, Those mail and newspaper deliveries punctuated the day like church bells. You read the paper...
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man in an iFugue
Gary Shteyngart: “This right here,” said the curly-haired, 20-something Apple Store glam-nerd who sold me my latest...
Steven Johnson’s numbers game
Unfortunately, Steven Johnson, once one of the sharpest cultural commentators around, seems to be turning into a...
escaping
It’s interesting that the NYT today ran one story about people who refuse to have cellphones and another story...
the dangers of focus?
Sam Anderson’s argument that “unwavering focus . . . can actually be just as problematic as ADHD” is...
quote of the day
“The Internet is basically a Skinner box engineered to tap right into our deepest mechanisms of addiction.”...
freedom
From the website : "Freedom is an application that disables networking on an Apple computer for up to eight hours...