There you are, doing something worthwhile online–researching, reading the news, connecting with people on Facebook. Then you see a link. “This kitten has a special trick that’ll leave you speechless.” You click through to a web page with a Youtube.
Aside from publishing this site and our real estate arm, one of the chief things LifeEdited does is spread the less is more gospel at various conferences. This last weekend we–specifically Graham Hill with my assistance–presented at the Revitalize Conference.
Enter many children’s classrooms and chances are you will be visually assaulted: walls are lined with construction paper turkeys, world maps, posters advocating the consumption of celery and so forth. While this visual maelstrom might strike most of us as a.
We came across an interesting story by Lane Wood, a San Franciscan who, after taking an impromptu dip in a lake, accidentally drowned his iPhone 5. Rather than immediately replace the uninsured phone, Lane decided to try a month phone.
March 1st is National Unplugging Day, a day to power off phones, computers and any other device that needs plugging in and a strong connection. The project is the brainchild of Sabbath Manifesto who promote the idea of a, gulp,.
Many of us have many great intentions to meditate regularly, but we regularly find many great reasons why we cannot to do it–we’re tired, we haven’t had our coffee, we’re expecting a call. The biggest reason, of course, is there.
Yes, it has come to this: “Digital Detoxes”–offline stays for those of us bottoming out on information overload. While we’ve looked at tools for combating the attention span crisis in the past, for many of us, the temptation to go online.
A recent article in Canada’s Globe and Mail suggests North Americans are increasingly going on never-ending online searches for the perfect bedroom mirror and losing sleep over the colour of front doors. In other words, they are décor-obsessed. This phenomenon, they believe,.
When the recession hit in 2008, the restaurant Hari and Karl Berzins started went under. A year later, they were forced to sell their 3 bedroom, 1500 sq ft house. They were broke, raising a couple kids and forced to take.
Let’s get one thing clear: multitasking is a myth. The human mind cannot–will not–pay attention to more than one thing at a time. What most of us consider multitasking is switching back and forth between multiple stimuli. And the more.