Garrison Keillor shares this wise quote today from Harper Lee, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird”:
“…in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn…
Are you spending lots of time on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media sites? Or have you avoided these pastimes and wondered if you’re missing something important? Are you concerned about what’s healthy and what’s not in this increasingly digital world?
How does the explosion of social media affect our interpersonal relationships? Does having more virtual…
Disney has just announced a new feature to go along with the re-release of “The Little Mermaid” next week. Children will be invited to bring their iPads to the movie theater and to play interactive games a along with the movie while watching. Perhaps it’s a great publicity gimmick; perhaps it’s a way to sell…
I went to a bar to play team trivia with my family last week. It was extremely fun but also eye-opening. It’s not that I discovered how much I didn’t know – I already was aware of that. But what kept hitting me in the face was how often I started to reach for my…
I was very interested when I heard about the National Day of Unplugging (sunset February 28 to sunset March 1). Since conquering cyberoverload is all about becoming the master and not the slave of our gadgets, I thought I should give it a try. But it wasn’t the easiest day for me to try to…
Once you move to an e-reader, as I have, you’re bothered by the fact that you have to give it up for two relatively short periods of time—during airplane take-offs and landings. We’ve been told for years that anything with an on-off switch can interfere with the plane’s navigation system.
An article in the New York…
Yesterday I overheard a woman talking about her husband’s recent heart attack:
He came back from running feeling absolutely horrible, with tightness in his chest, but he thought it was just because of the cold air. She said to him, “it may be a heart attack. Let’s go to the emergency room.” He absolutely refused, saying,…
I talked about about conquering CyberOverload
on Wisconsin Public Radio (Wisconsin Ideas Network)
Listen to the show, in which I especially focus on helping businesses conquer cyberoverload.
It is archived here at 1/03/2013, 11:45 a.m.
Do you hear anyone complaining that they have too much time on their hands? Of course not. Everyone seems to have too much to do and not enough hours in the day to accomplish it — much less have time to relax.
The Incredible Cost of Interruptions
But recent research points to a solution: Stop letting yourself…
Is it just me, or is the monsoon of email rising like the earth’s oceans, ready to swamp you entirely if you don’t keep up every day? Give one political contribution and suddenly, every pol is your friend; join a professional organization and every related provider wants your business; and are there more and more…