Apr 29, 2023 | Non-Fiction |
… the number of emails that you could, in principle, receive, is essentially infinite. But … the number of messages you’ll have time to read properly, reply to, or just make a considered decision to delete is strictly finite. So getting better at processing your email...
Jun 27, 2020 | Fiction, Geekery |
“You the app whisperer.” “They needed something to explain my being with him in the first place.” “‘Beta tester with a wild talent’? Decent hook.” “That was the lede on a Wired article, but only because I was with...
Feb 24, 2014 | Geekery, Non-Fiction |
Oliver Burkeman from The Guardian Feb 15th and on oliverburkeman.com If you’re feeling overstretched, at work or at home, let me make a suggestion: you need more inboxes in your life. I’m aware that this may strike you as the delusional ramblings of (to...
Sep 19, 2008 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
It is true that we no longer have a culture of leisure, in which thought and writing were violent and pleasurable. And our leisure now is no more than the charnel-house where dead time is born.
