Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Embrace boring and single-purpose technology. Digital distractions are so seductive because they seem to offer the chance of escape to a realm where painful human limitations don’t apply: you need never feel bored or constrained in your freedom of action, which isn’t the case when it comes to work that matters (here). You can combat this problem by
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
I began to see how children who had learned to program computers could use very concrete computer models to think about thinking and to learn about learning and, in doing so, enhance their powers as psychologists and as epistemologists.
Seymour A Papert • Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
a stubborn constituency of users refused to move over into the digital sphere, and numerous peer-reviewed studies soon showed that their obduracy made sense. Something about the act of writing by hand, and the production of a physical object, makes the older technology more effective than the new. Sebregondi had, unwittingly, prompted serious inqui
... See moreRoland Allen • The Notebook
Second Machine Age, written by the MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
Clive Thompson • 9 Ways to ‘Rewild Your Attention’
They discovered that their primary customer, very seasoned developers with 7–15 years of experience, wanted to scale up their skills but not on a predetermined career path.