Archive for July, 2008
I’m in the process of moving to another apartment in Buenos Aires (I leave tonight!), and getting ready to spend a few weeks in Portland, Ore. (I leave Thursday!) I love these moments when I get to step back and look at everything I’ve collected and minimalize the crap. No matter how you try to [...]
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Tags: choices, decisions, psychology
As a part of my ongoing, seemingly never-ending book proposal, I was doing more research today on tourism. (Sometimes “research” can mean “reading your email.”)
According to the esteemed Travel Agent Central, “Mental Health Tourism could be the new niche.” As Mark Rogers writes:
The Bangkok Post is reporting on the contents of a paper presented by [...]
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Tags: computers, economy, gas, gas prices, health, mental health, tourism, travel, trend, trends
Everyone fails sometimes. But when that failure or rejection is very public–say, when you’re the presumptive Republican nominee–and news of your rejection hits the CNN website, that’s gotta hurt. An essay that John McCain wrote and submitted to the New York Times op-ed page, defending his stance on Iraq, was recently rejected, although the editors [...]
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Tags: failure, mccain, writing
More on the Myth of Multitasking
It’s Friday, and for those of you math-savvy enough to do the calculations, it’s late in the afternoon here in Buenos Aires. I haven’t accomplished as much as I’d have liked to this week. Surprise!
Although there’s been a lot written about how much e-mail zaps your attention, I never wanted to think that my activities [...]
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Tags: attention, cognition, psychology, Technology
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So, I’ve been absent from my website! I can assure you that the reasons are good. For one, I wrote a short piece for the Guardian about the cost of books in Argentina. It’s true and sad.
Secondly, I’ve been wrapping up my book proposal, por fin! Concentrating on that has come at the expense of [...]
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I did an article on music recommendation a while back, and have been reading a lot about the subject lately for another article. One thing that always bothered me about looking at someone’s listening history–a list of songs they’ve listened to, and how many times they’ve listed to each one–is that you have no idea [...]
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Tags: visualization
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