Love this call out from an interview on NPR: So, if you want people to endorse hierarchical thinking, put them under time pressure or just get them drunk. They’re talking about research that when people enter low-thinking environments (such as when they’re drunk) they revert to mental models developed early in childhood: in this case […]
Blog: Tools for Making Time
The Horizon
We’re thrilled to announce a new view for DayBack calendar: the horizon view is a great way to see all the events for a single project (or a single resource) when those events span more than a few weeks. We’ve chosen to call this the “horizon” view as we think it’s a great way to […]
Temporal Context Triggers
The iPhone knows who you are, where you are, and has access to your payment methods. It puts ubiquitous computing in context, and that’s why we’re still discovering whole new futures it might enable. What’s Next It also needs a temporal context. Not just what time it is, but the user’s temporal context: are they […]
Doing Less – Speaking @ Find Your Moose
I was honored to present the keynote session at FYM 2015, a work life conference in Chicago last week. My friend Molly Connolly introduced me with an image of a painting I’d finished this year–coincidentally, also of a moose: I’d started that piece in 2003. The ochre is iodine. The rest is oil, pencil, separated house […]
Making Time – motorcycles and surfing
Expedition Portal has just published a great article on cycle touring the Philipines with photos by Justin Coffey–who also contributed the surf photos and videos for this site. I first saw Justin’s photos on his surfing blog (highly recommended, especially any of the videos) and learned that we surfed some of the same beaches. I was the kook […]